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Self-Hosters Confirm It Again: Linux Dominates the Homelab OS Space (linuxiac.com)

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Ethan Sholly, the driving force behind selfh.st, one of the most recognized communities uniting self-hosting enthusiasts, has published the latest results of his annual survey on the community’s preferences, collecting 4,081 responses from self-hosting practitioners worldwide.

No surprise there: Linux is overwhelmingly dominant, chosen by more than four out of five self-hosters (81%). In other words, for self-hosters operating at bare-metal, virtualised, or container-based infrastructure, Linux remains the backbone.

In fact, this result aligns closely with broader trends: according to Wikipedia, Linux holds a 63% share of global server infrastructure. Aside from the hobby aspect, most respondents said privacy was their main reason for self-hosting, which, as you know, remains one of Linux’s strongest selling points. Now, back to the numbers.

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 74 points 1 day ago (21 children)

Linux holds a 63% share of global server infrastructure.

How is that not 95%?

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Some stuff is designed for windows and we have to support it.

Other shops are windows shops

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Other shops are windows shops

This is the biggest chunk from my experience. They have it for AD, on prem exchange, then they do another for storage so why make it different. Then they need a database, so why not keep it the same? Whoopsie, need to support some locally hosted web. Another server? Let's not rock the boat, IIS works well enough....

And it just continues from there, all MS all the way down for them.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apache and nginx run just fine on Windows too.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And yet, not what MS shops use in the overwhelming majority of cases.

I'm talking about mid to large enterprise, from finance to legal. Changes are so slow in orgs like those that it often isnt worth it to bring up. So they dont, they just spin up another server VM on HyperV to run another instance of IIS.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly it's probably tomcat as bundled with whatever piece of junk corporate software the good idea fairy sold them this time.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Oh if its a bundled "service" application almost definitely.

It will also have a UI reminiscent of win2k, cost a minimum of $20k to engage them for any "project" effort, and the first 3 meetings will be a waste of time over miscommunication on expected status.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Also a proprietary license server that has to run on a machine image they provide OR they manage, in your prem.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 points 8 hours ago

And for stupid reasons needs to run a connectivity check to google, amazon, and microsoft or it throws an error.

Apparently I'm missing something that has netted them an absolute fortune. Or they are (cough morals cough).

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago

oh man I used to support a product that ran on bundled tomcat. Fuck. That. Shit.

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