Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/DontGetBanned6446 on 2025-07-19 02:37:31+00:00.

I'm new here and wondering what's more common, buying hardware yourself and doing a homelab setup, or using a cloud provider like AWS and hosting stuff there?

If you can be detailed that would be very helpful. For example if you chose one over the other because of cost, how much are you spending? If there is functionality that one has but the other doesn't, what is it? What is your use case?

For me, I personally wanted to host some media (not a lot, 100-200GBs maybe?), something like nextcloud, and then maybe personal software projects and other smaller stuff (git server, password manager, etc. etc.)