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Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services. A place to share, discuss, discover, assist with, gain assistance for, and critique self-hosted alternatives to our favorite web apps, web services, and online tools. Founded 2014 · 843.1K members

849.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 18K upvotes, which works out to 21 per 1,000 members.

21peak upvotes per 1,000 members
849.7Kmembers
18Kbest post
1.8Kmost comments
897posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

50% 23% 14% 8%
Text 50% Question 23% Image 14% Gallery 8% Link 4% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Need Help 336 Release (AI) 63 Meta Post 41 Media Serving 41 Software Development 37 Release (No AI) 35 Wednesday Exceptions 31 Product Announcement 27 Guide 26 Personal Dashboard 22

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

self-hosting everything

↑ 18K 💬 385 image 2026

Nothing to do

↑ 10K 💬 428 image 2026

Huntarr - Your passwords and your entire arr stack's API keys are exposed to anyone on your network, or worse, the internet.

↑ 9.7K 💬 1.3K text 2026

This how I feel, but only thing I do is copying docker-compose.yml and up -d

↑ 9.4K 💬 394 image 2026

I felt this in my soul.

↑ 9.3K 💬 122 image 2025

Saved this S10 from the trash. Now it runs a 24/7 Minecraft server.

↑ 9K 💬 283 image 2026

Any teamspeak alternatives open source for self hosting?

↑ 8.6K 💬 870 image 2026

Because we are a self hosting family that's why.

↑ 7.7K 💬 156 image 2026

So apparently Google will SPAM your self-hosted email just cuz **** you, that's why.

↑ 6.5K 💬 469 image 2026

What do you think about my new Home Server?

↑ 6.4K 💬 591 image 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/selfhosted, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/selfhosted?
r/selfhosted ("Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services") describes itself this way: A place to share, discuss, discover, assist with, gain assistance for, and critique self-hosted alternatives to our favorite web apps, web services, and online tools. It was founded in 2014 and has 843.1K members.
How many members does r/selfhosted have?
r/selfhosted has about 849.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 897 of its posts; the biggest reached 18K upvotes, which is 21 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/selfhosted?
"self-hosting everything" reached 18K upvotes and 385 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/selfhosted.
What subreddits are similar to r/selfhosted?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology.
What kind of posts do best on r/selfhosted?
Of the posts we hold, 50% are text posts and 23% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/selfhosted?
Across 897 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 20:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes), Saturday at 03:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes), Saturday at 02:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/selfhosted?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/selfhosted has 5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/selfhosted, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.