Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Cyb3r_N0mad on 2025-07-06 14:11:30+00:00.

Hi everyone,

So I had a weird realization recently…

I spend way more time setting up, tearing down, redesigning, and tinkering with my self-hosted services than I do actually using them. Like, I’ll spend a whole weekend migrating from Docker Compose to Kubernetes or back again just because I can. Or redesign my reverse proxy setup for the third time this month even though the last one worked perfectly fine.

I’ll spin up a Nextcloud instance, get everything perfect, admire it for a minute… and then never really use it. Meanwhile I’m already thinking about moving it to a different VM or switching to something else entirely.

Anyone else like this? Tell me I’m not alone in this madness.