Tag

Self-Hosting

Node-RED for the Rest of Us: Automations Without a Cloud2024-10-07
Velero: Backing Up Kubernetes, Not Just Volumes2024-09-24
Local LLMs: A Practical Comparison of Llama, Mistral, and Gemma for Real Work2024-09-24
Paperless + a Local LLM: Auto-Tagging Scans Offline2024-09-22
Authelia vs Authentik: Choosing a Self-Hosted SSO You Won't Regret2024-09-18
Self-Hosted Dead-Man Switches for Your Cron Jobs2024-09-07
SNMP Is Not Dead: Monitoring the Dumb Boxes2024-08-24
VictoriaMetrics: When Prometheus Gets Too Hungry for Your Hardware2024-08-13
Alerting That Doesn't Cry Wolf: Tuning Alertmanager2024-08-09
Technical Debt in a Home Lab: When to Refactor and When to Let It Rot2024-08-06
OpenTelemetry at Home: Traces for a Two-Service App2024-07-25
Bare-Metal Restore: Rehearsing the Recovery You Dread2024-07-25
LoRA Fine-Tuning on Consumer Hardware: Adding Skills to a Model Without Retraining It2024-07-16
Netdata in an Afternoon: Per-Second Metrics, Zero Config2024-07-11
mDNS and Avahi: Local Service Discovery That Works Until It Doesn't2024-07-03
Uptime Kuma: A Status Page for Services Only You Use2024-06-26
Open WebUI: A Private ChatGPT Front End for Your Own Models2024-06-18
Loki for Logs: Grep at Scale Without the Elasticsearch Tax2024-06-12
Split-Horizon DNS: One Domain, Two Answers2024-06-11
Cloudflare Tunnels: Exposing Services Without Opening Ports (and the Trade-Offs)2024-06-11
DoH and DoT: Encrypting Your DNS Without Breaking the Sinkhole2024-05-28
Matrix and Element: Self-Hosted Messaging That Federates2024-05-28
Kopia: The Backup Tool That Deduplicates Everything2024-05-21
ComfyUI: Node-Based Image Generation for People Who Want Control2024-05-21
VPN Kill Switches for a Self-Hosted Download Box2024-05-13
A Self-Hosted Speedtest That Keeps History2024-04-29
Firefly III: Self-Hosted Personal Finance Without the Bank Watching2024-04-23
A Local RAG Stack: Chatting With Your Own Documents Offline2024-04-15
Per-Device Bandwidth Monitoring With a Managed Switch2024-04-14
Keepalived and Virtual IPs: High Availability Without a Load Balancer2024-04-02
Ntfy: Self-Hosted Push Notifications That Replace Twelve SaaS Webhooks2024-04-02
The Real Cost of Self-Hosting: Electricity, Time, and What You Actually Save2024-03-28
Whisper: Self-Hosted Speech-to-Text That Runs on a Raspberry Pi2024-03-26
Traefik vs Nginx Proxy Manager: Reverse Proxies for the Rest of Us2024-03-19
TOTP and WebAuthn: Two-Factor Authentication Without Authy2024-03-05
Double-NAT and How to Escape It2024-03-01
Running Stable Diffusion on a Budget GPU: What Actually Works Below 8GB VRAM2024-02-27
MetalLB and Kubernetes Bare-Metal Networking: LoadBalancers Without a Cloud2024-02-20
Nebula: A Mesh Overlay When Tailscale Isn't Enough2024-02-16
Paperless-ngx: A Paperless Office That Actually Works2024-02-12
Podman: Running Containers Without Docker (and Without Losing Your Mind)2024-02-06
Split-Horizon DNS at Home: One Domain, Two Answers2024-02-01
De-Googling Your Life: A Realistic, Step-by-Step Migration Plan2024-01-30
Loki: Log Aggregation for People Who Can't Afford Splunk2024-01-23
AdGuard Home vs Pi-hole: The DNS Sinkhole Shoot-Out2024-01-17
K3s Multi-Node: Adding a Second Machine to Your Cluster2024-01-16
TrueNAS Scale vs Unraid: Choosing a NAS OS2023-12-19
Container Image Housekeeping: Pruning, Pinning, and Not Running latest in Production2023-12-19
Healthchecks.io (Self-Hosted): Making Sure Your Cron Jobs Actually Ran2023-11-21
Litestream: Streaming SQLite Backups to Object Storage2023-11-20
SQLite: The Database You Already Have and Probably Underuse2023-11-14
Mealie: A Self-Hosted Recipe Manager for People Who Actually Cook2023-11-07
SnapRAID + MergerFS: Flexible Bulk Storage for Media Hoarders2023-11-05
Helm Charts Demystified: What They Actually Do and When to Skip Them2023-10-31
Snapshots Are Not Backups: A Cautionary Tale2023-10-22