I don’t have a home server yet but I’m exploring and sometimes I get confused about some posts here.

For example I saw a post asking for recommendation for a “self hosted budget management app”. Can’t you just install this type of app to your phone or pc? What’s the purpose here, will you host it and access it from a browser? Or do you only want to backup its data to your server?

I hope I don’t sound stupid please enlighten me.

  • Danternas@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Different reasons.

    Main are availability and support for several simultaneous users.

    Pi-hole, web server, media server and cloud storage only makes sense when available 24/7 for several users.

    My most niche case is installing a VScode server because you can’t install VScode on an Amazon Fire and I wanted to do some web design on the train. I can now access a VScode server through the browser anywhere and sync it with Git.