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Vaultwarden: Self-Hosting a Password Manager You Actually Control

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

A password manager is the single most important piece of software most people never think about. It quietly holds the keys to your email, your bank, your tax account, and the embarrassing forum you joined in 2009 and forgot to delete. Handing that responsibility to a cloud service is perfectly reasonable, and the big providers do a genuinely good job. But if you would rather your encrypted vault lived on a box in your own cupboard than on someone else’s servers, Vaultwarden is the project that makes self-hosting practical without demanding you become a cryptographer first. This guide walks through what it is, how to stand one up safely, and the honest trade-offs you accept when you take the keys back.

Uptime Kuma: Self-Hosted Monitoring That Warns You Before Your Users Do

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:30:00 +0000

There are two ways to learn that your website is down. The first is a polite alert on your phone at the first sign of trouble, giving you time to fix it quietly. The second is an angry message from a user, a customer, or your boss, after the outage has already done its damage. Uptime Kuma exists to make sure you get the first kind. It is a self-hosted monitoring tool that watches your services and shouts the moment one stops answering — and it is genuinely pleasant to use.

One-Click Everything: Deploying Self-Hosted Apps with Coolify

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:30:00 +0000

There is a particular magic to the modern hosting platforms. You connect a Git repository, push a commit, and moments later your application is live on the internet with a valid HTTPS certificate, a database attached, and a URL to share. Heroku pioneered it, Vercel and Netlify polished it, and a generation of developers grew used to never touching a server. The catch is the meter: those conveniences are billed by the seat, the build minute, and the gigabyte, and the numbers add up. Coolify offers the same workflow on a server you own, for the price of the server itself. This guide explains what it does and walks you through deploying a real application from a Git repository.

Build Your Own Google Drive: A Practical Nextcloud Setup on Linux

Sat, 30 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Cloud storage is wonderfully convenient right up until you read the fine print. Your files sync everywhere, your photos back themselves up, your calendar follows you between devices, and in exchange a very large company gets a detailed map of your life and the right to change the terms whenever it likes. Nextcloud is the open-source answer to that bargain: a self-hosted platform that gives you file sync, calendars, contacts, and even office documents, all running on a Linux box you control. This guide gets a robust Nextcloud running with Docker, puts it behind HTTPS, connects your devices, and sets sensible expectations about how it compares to the polished giants.

From GitHub to Git Home: Self-Hosting Your Repositories with Gitea

Sat, 23 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Git was designed to be distributed. Every clone is a full copy of the history, which means no single server is special and no company holds your project hostage. Yet somewhere along the way the world decided that “git” and “GitHub” were synonyms, and a vast amount of the world’s source code now lives on infrastructure owned by a single corporation. That is convenient right up until it is not. If you have ever wanted a home for your repositories that you fully control, that runs on a Raspberry Pi or a spare VPS, and that boots in milliseconds, Gitea is the answer. This guide gets you from nothing to a running, self-hosted git forge you can push to over SSH.

Local AI on Your Own Metal: Running LLMs Offline with Ollama

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Not so long ago the idea of a capable language model running on the computer under your desk, with no internet connection and no monthly bill, sounded faintly absurd. We have written before about the leap from the stumbling early days of GPT-2 to the polished conversations of modern chatbots, and the assumption baked into all of it was that the clever part lived in someone else’s datacentre. That assumption no longer holds. A tool called Ollama has made running open-weight language models on your own hardware about as difficult as installing a music player. This guide shows you how to do it, what to expect from the machine you already own, and where the honest limits lie.