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.
It’s mostly about syncing data between your different devices, without having to use a cloud service. I want to be able to organize the budget on my PC and look it up on my phone for example, without having to keep my PC running or manually sync them.
Another aspect is backups and redundancy. My NAS has all my data, and it does an encrypted cloud backup every night. I don’t have to remember that or make sure it gets the latest changes, because it’s always running and always up to date.
It’s also just a fun little hobby to tinker with it and figure things out.