Self-Hosting Survey 2026: What are your favorite self-hosted apps?

> I’m not affiliated with this in any way but saw it posted at the other place & thought fellow Lemmyzens might like to take a look. > > I always find it quite hard to answer “favorite” apps as some infrastructure critical self hosted apps aren’t as sexy as others which sit front & centre so I feel they often don’t seem to get as much credit or attention (such as NGinX/DuckDNS compared to Immich/Jellyfin etc) > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Like in previous years, I’m running a survey about self-hosting. The focus is on your favorite self-hosted apps, but there are plenty of other (optional) questions too. The top five app lists are free response fields, you don’t have to select the suggestions. > > > > Link to take the survey: > > > > https://survey.deployn.de/s/self-host-2026 [https://survey.deployn.de/s/self-host-2026] > > > > Last year’s results [https://selfhosted-survey-2025.deployn.de/] > > > > More info: > > > > - The survey is anonymous. Like last year, results will be published in aggregated form. I’m currently planning to publish them in December. > > > > - It takes about 10-25 minutes. > > > > - Some of you asked for more questions in the comments. I added a lot at first, then realized it took 45 minutes to fill out properly. So I threw some out again, but there are still quite a few. The survey now has a core section that mainly covers the MVPs (your 5 favorite apps), and you can switch on other modules if you want. Almost every question is optional and can be skipped. If you answer everything at a reasonable pace, it takes around 20 minutes. > > > > - The proprietary survey tool caused new problems every year, so last year I switched to HeyForm while the survey was already running. That wasn’t ideal for my purposes either, so this year the survey runs on a new app. It should also make entering your apps faster. > > > > - It’s still easier to fill out on a desktop computer. > > > > Thank you in advance for participating