---
title: "The Future is NOT Self-Hosted"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-is-not-self-hosted-t6fnqy4pi
source_url: https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2025-07-25T18:37:07.274Z
updated: 2025-09-06T02:32:21.403Z
tags: ["cloud", "docker", "homelab", "privacy", "self-hosting"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 71
comments: 15
language: en
---

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# The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 12 min read · 71 upvotes · 15 comments

## Summary

Self-hosting offers digital independence by running personal cloud services at home, but it's technically complex and creates isolated systems that lack the convenience of shared cloud services. The author argues for community-hosted infrastructure instead - publicly funded, encrypted cloud services that combine the benefits of cloud computing with user ownership and privacy. This approach would provide accessible digital services through libraries or cooperatives, avoiding both corporate control and the inefficiency of individual self-hosting setups.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@rsteadman** · 20 upvotes

> _This title could be clearer and more informative. Try out Clickbait Shield for free_
>
> This is on top of practically every item. Maybe call it Obvious Shield.

**@rallisf1** · 14 upvotes

> I beg to differ. Self-hosting doesn't equal a home lab. Renting your own VPS / dedicated server is self-hosting as well.
>
> IMHO the future of data sovereignty lies on self-hosted federated services, exactly how mastodon and peertube work.

**@keatonh** · 6 upvotes

> Publicly funded cloud services sounds worse than corporate cloud services. A cooperative is not publicly funded.

**@byteoutlaw** · 4 upvotes

> In the future people will be able to help seed on serverless functions... :) Simple. pgp p2p end-2-end :O I believe that :D<3 beatifull..

**@ezee** · 3 upvotes

> Uhhh, maybe this guy hasn't heard of federated services. Also not tried any of the convenient wrapper apps that makes self hosting trivial.
>
> If he was able to set up self hosted services (the hard way seemingly), why does he simultaneously think that nobody else can? He wants equal access for all, yet isn't willing to accept that others are as competent as himself? For reading a tutorial online?
>
> He is a true bureaucrat, through and through.
>
> It is a laughable implication that the government would host peoples files encrypted and never snoop around.
>
> He knows this idea is bad, that's why he...

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Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#docker](https://daily.dev/tags/docker), [#homelab](https://daily.dev/tags/homelab), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy), [#self-hosting](https://daily.dev/tags/self-hosting)

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