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.

  • smileymattj@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Let’s say you’re VM home lab server has reliable backups & snapshots setup.

    You treat your PC, phone, tablet as expendable devices. Nothing saved locally, nothing backed up. If your one of your client devices does, they are easily replaced. Because all important data is on your server. Single point of capture, so everything is backed up and safe.

    If you’re in that scenario. You’d want to run everything off your home server.