7 Best Self-Hosting Subreddits as of 3/13/2026

7 Self-Hosting communities on Reddit

Updated 3/13/2026

#1
r/HomeAssistant
on reddit
Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io.
551K members
Forum
Courses
Tools
6 views / month
#2
r/Nextcloud
on reddit
Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file sync & communication app platform. Access & sync your files, contacts, calendars and communicate & collaborate across your devices. You decide what happens with your data, where it is and who can access it! If you have questions for use in a company or government at scale (>1000 users), do yourself a favor and contact Nextcloud itself - this community is mostly home-user focused!
69K members
Forum
Courses
Tools
3 views / month
#3
r/jellyfin
on reddit
This is the Reddit space for the Jellyfin Project. For help with Jellyfin, see https://jellyfin.org/contact for contact options. Allowed: Community discussions about Jellyfin and related topics. Discouraged: Help & feature requests (no official support here; use our official spaces: https://jellyfin.org/contact). Disallowed: Anything that is against our community standards: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/community-standards/.
113K members
Forum
Courses
Tools
1 views / month
#4
r/Plex
on reddit
For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. The Plex Media Server is smart software that makes playing Movies, TV Shows and other media on your computer simple. This page is community-driven and not run by or affiliated with Plex, Inc.
405K members
Forum
Courses
Tools
2 views / month
#5
r/docker
on reddit
Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare metal, OpenStack clusters, public clouds and more.
312K members
Forum
Courses
2 views / month
#6
r/TrueNAS
on reddit
The official subreddit for all things related to TrueNAS, the world's #1 most deployed Storage OS!
87K members
Forum
Pairing
2 views / month
#7
r/Proxmox
on reddit
Welcome to r/Proxmox , the main subreddit regarding the Proxmox hypervisor!
203K members
Forum
3 views / month

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FAQ

: Communities for people running their own servers, home labs, and self-hosted applications. Reddit dominates with massive communities for home automation, self-hosted media servers, and container orchestration, covering everything from beginner setup to advanced homelab builds.
: Hive Index lists 7 Self-Hosting subreddits on Reddit. Most listings with size data are massive (71%) or huge (29%). We only have a handful of listings so far, so treat these numbers as directional. The main Self-Hosting topic page covers every platform we track for this topic.
: Forum is the most common (100%). Others that show up often include courses and tools. Use the feature filters above the list to narrow results.
: All 7 listings on this page are free to join (no paid membership or application gate listed). Access rules can still change on the community side.
: On Hive Index, the default Popular sort surfaces r/HomeAssistant, r/Nextcloud, r/jellyfin, and r/Plex first. Popularity reflects visitor interest in communities on the site, not a universal quality score. Use the sort menu for Ratings, Largest, or Newest.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for topic relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available. Member counts are approximate. Popular reflects visitor interest in communities on the site, with richer profiles breaking ties. Ratings, Largest, and Newest use review scores, reported member counts, and listing age instead.
: This page was last updated 3/13/2026, based on the most recent change to the topic or its listings. We refresh entries when communities are submitted, claimed, or reviewed, and we update member counts, features, and traffic data on an ongoing basis.