Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/SillyLilBear on 2025-03-21 12:38:44+00:00.

I'm always looking for ideas for self hosting services. What's one that you don't see people talking about but you can't live without? We see a million posts asking what is your favorite.

For me, it's self hosting Healthchecks.io. I love this service, and I use it for work and home extensively, especially to keep track of my backups, monthly backup verification, and monthly pruning of backups. I use the public healthchecks.io to do a sanity check on my instance to assure it is running as well as IP checks on the server that runs it. If my backup fails for whatever reason, I know about it immediately.