# SX: The Fair Guide to Self-Hosting

**URL:** <https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-the-fair-guide-to-self-hosting/829>\
**Category:** Commons based social stack\
**Tags:** sx, best-practice, soss, service-delivery\
**Created:** [February 24, 2026, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-the-fair-guide-to-self-hosting/829 "2026-02-24T09:27:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-the-fair-guide-to-self-hosting/829/1 "2026-02-24T09:27:30Z")

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This is a placeholder for a SX documentation artifact that would be very useful, and relates to the [Sustainability](https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#core-principles) core principle of Social experience design. For now there is only this [fediverse post](https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116124858372846885) I tooted just now:

> The fair story for [#SelfHosting](https://social.coop/tags/SelfHosting) is to go beyond the jubilation of only its merits in so many of the “Just Self-host” advice and instruction blogs that are doing the rounds, and also include all the considerations to perhaps not self-host. As it brings a much larger burden than just that initial install. Such that people are even burning out and leave the [#FOSS](https://social.coop/tags/FOSS) space, having underestimated what it takes.