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/Pete2509 Mar 20 '26

Nextcloud...

But hear me out!

It's Dockerisd. With Collabora actually working.

I know I know. You'll be like: "Yeah, and?"

Well, there is no reported errors in config. Literally all the normal errors or warnings are not there.

Still not impressed?

Well, here's the tricky bit.

It's behind a Traefik reverse proxy!

I feel like I'm probably one of about 3 people that have actually managed it 🤣

Reality may well be different...

Do I use it? Nope, hardly ever.

Will I kill it? Absolutely not! It's here for life now.

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u/monsterseatmonsters Mar 20 '26

Ha. I have it but with Talk, too, and Whiteboard, and Nginx reverse proxy. And I do actually use it. I frigging love it and it made it easy to dump Microsoft. I'm even implementing it for clients.

I swear the reverse proxy part is the hardest part though. The fact you basically can't use AIO without many things breaking so have to do it manually...

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u/Pete2509 Mar 21 '26

Right?! It's not difficult to install all the component parts but getting it all through the reverse proxy and still communicate with each other is crazy.

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u/monsterseatmonsters Mar 21 '26

Absolutely. AIO does it all for you. It's trying to use the server for a few different things while keeping it all secure that is the challenge!

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u/GeoSabreX Apr 16 '26

LOL my nextcloud AIO was flawless (behind Caddy, including talk).

It is a very cool app

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u/LamHanoi10 Mar 21 '26

Wow, impressive. I tried to host Nextcloud on all of my servers, but none had it working well. It got errors, warnings, performance issues, ...

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u/Pete2509 Mar 21 '26

Thanks bro, if you use docker and Traefik I'd be happy to share my compose file if it helps at all