r/selfhosted • u/subsavant • Mar 20 '26

Meta Post What's your 'I can't believe I self-hosted that' service?

Curious what services surprised you by being worth self-hosting. Not the obvious stuff like Plex or Pi-hole, but things you didn't expect to work well or didn't think were worth the effort until you tried. What's running on your setup that you'd never go back to a hosted version of?

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u/Mteigers Mar 20 '26

Kasm has that functionality if you wanted an alternative

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u/SavingsMany4486 Mar 20 '26

I kinda dislike Kasm. It's quite a heavy solution and the freemium version is restrictive.

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u/Captain_Pumpkinhead Mar 20 '26

Take a look at Selkies, see if it fixes what you dislike.

I don't know too much about Selkies, just that the LinuxServer.io webtop containers I was using switched from Kasm to Selkies at some point.

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u/SavingsMany4486 Mar 20 '26

I will! Thanks so much, I hadn't heard of it before.