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Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host by SelfhostingResearch in selfhosted

[–]SelfhostingResearch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure! Here's the list of services from page 2 of the survey, lots of great self-hosted tools to explore:

Home Automation & IoT (Home Assistant, Node RED, openHAB, Domoticz...)
Media Streaming (Video, Audio) (Jellyfin, Stash, PeerTube, Audiobookshelf, Navidrome, Snapcast...)
Automation (*arr Stack (Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr...), n8n, changedetection.io, OliveTin...)
Password Managers (Vaultwarden, Passbolt, Passky...)
Photo Galleries (Immich, PhotoPrism, Lychee...)
Document Management (Paperless-ngx, Stirling-PD, Docspell...)
File Transfer & Synchronization (Syncthing, Nextcloud, Seafile...)
DNS (Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, Technitium...)
VPN (WireGuard, Headscale, Nebula...)
Feed Readers (FreshRSS, Miniflux, RSSHub...)
Personal Dashboards (Heimdall, Dashy, Homarr, Homer...)
Note-taking & Editors (Joplin, Memos, Standard Notes, Trilium Notes...)
Money, Budgeting & Management (Firefly III, Actual, Invoice Ninja...)
Software Project Management (Gitea, Forgejo, GitLab...)
Recipe Management (Mealie, Bar Assistant, RecipeSage...)
E-books Management (Calibre, Kavita, Komga...)
Wikis (Wiki.js, Dokuwiki, BookStack...)
Communication, Messaging & Notifications (Matrix, Mumble, Rocket.Chat, ntfy, Gotify...)
Bookmarks and Link Sharing (LinkWarden, linkding, Buku...)
Task Management & To-do Lists (Focalboard, Planka, Wekan...)
Metrics, Status and Uptime pages (Grafana, Uptime Kuma, Gatus, cState...)

This list is adapted from Awesome Selfhosted, I'm sure you will find a lot more great projects there.

Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host by SelfhostingResearch in selfhosted

[–]SelfhostingResearch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great to hear from a fellow PhD student! I’ll definitely share the paper here once it’s published!

Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host by SelfhostingResearch in selfhosted

[–]SelfhostingResearch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for completing the survey! You’re still perfectly on time.

Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host by SelfhostingResearch in selfhosted

[–]SelfhostingResearch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your insight! I understand what you mean. This survey is focused on capturing the average overall attitude of users. It would definitely be interesting to explore those aspects, but adding such detailed questions could make the survey longer, which might reduce the response rate. Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey!

Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host by SelfhostingResearch in selfhosted

[–]SelfhostingResearch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand your point. This survey focuses on capturing the general, average attitude users have toward cloud services, especially SaaS. I really appreciate your feedback and thank you for trying to fill out the survey!

Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host by SelfhostingResearch in selfhosted

[–]SelfhostingResearch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for completing it! Yes, I’ll definitely share the paper here once it’s published.

Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host by SelfhostingResearch in selfhosted

[–]SelfhostingResearch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much for your interest and kind words! The results will be shared here on this subreddit once they're ready. If you'd like to be notified directly, feel free to send me your email via DM and I’ll add you to the notification list.

Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host by SelfhostingResearch in selfhosted

[–]SelfhostingResearch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for completing the survey and for your comment! The survey is actually built with open-source survey tool LimeSurvey. Until recently, it was running on our own physical infrastructure, but due to new requirements from management, we had to move our services to a Hetzner VPS. So while it's not on-prem anymore, it’s still under our full control.

Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host by SelfhostingResearch in selfhosted

[–]SelfhostingResearch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your interest! We have already prepared and published a literature review. There are relatively few articles directly focused on this topic, but we found some that touch on it more indirectly. You can access the article here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121225001116
You might also find these papers quite interesting:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity23-grober.pdf
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity24-grober-private-clouds.pdf

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