Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/waterlily3945 on 2025-05-05 02:02:29+00:00.

Howdy!

I’m currently running openemediavault as just kinda my default server os. Totally free, great plugin support, based on Debian which I understand how to use, relatively easy backup through third party tools.

My question is I always hear unraid vs truenas. I even run multiple VMs on different hosts using openmediavault.

Is it just not as popular? Is there like a huge red flag im just missing? Is unraid or truenas really that much better?

That’s all I’ve really got. I just kinda feel like I’m doing something wrong.

I know wrong doesn’t exist in a homelab it’s all preference but my main thing is like am I missing something?