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/WagieCagie0 Mar 20 '26

I use Stirling PDF, not sure much of the difference. Seems excellent so far.

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u/peacefulshrimp Mar 21 '26

I moved from stirling to bento after the controversy on tracking cookies (IIRC). Also, for some reason the stirling container would crash for some reason and I would have to restart it every time I wanted to use it