Welcome to the Explorix Blog! Dive into a variety of topics including history, technology, lifestyle, DIY, and more. Our articles provide in-depth insights and practical guides to keep you informed and inspired.
Welcome to the Explorix Blog! Dive into a variety of topics including history, technology, lifestyle, DIY, and more. Our articles provide in-depth insights and practical guides to keep you informed and inspired.
Homelab
Does ZFS Really Need ECC RAM in a Home NAS?
Duncan Hale
October 20, 2026
Monitoring
A Homelab Monitoring Starter Stack: What to Watch on Day One With Free Tools
Diana Vos
October 20, 2026
Self-Hosting
The Best Self-Hosted Apps for a First Home Server: What to Install in Week One
Sam Chen
October 20, 2026
E-Ink Devices
PDF Highlights Off an E-Ink Tablet: Exports That Keep Page Numbers, Colours and Notes
Kenji Arai
October 20, 2026
Homelab
Graceful Shutdown on a Power Cut: Getting NUT to Stop the NAS, Proxmox and Docker in the Right Order
Gareth Cole
October 20, 2026
Homelab
SMART Warnings on a Home NAS: Which Ones to Watch and Which Mean Replace the Drive Now
Keira Lund
October 20, 2026
Self-Hosting
Audiobookshelf vs Jellyfin for Audiobooks: Chapters, Progress Sync and Phone Apps
Owen Brant
October 20, 2026
Homelab
Homepage vs Homarr for a Homelab Dashboard: YAML Files or Drag and Drop
Nadia Okoye
October 20, 2026
Self-Hosting
Mealie vs Tandoor for a Self-Hosted Family Recipe Manager
Ruth Ellison
October 20, 2026
Self-Hosting
Immich vs Ente Photos for a Family Photo Library: Your Own Server or an Encrypted Service
Leona Hart
October 20, 2026
Smart Home
Frigate vs Blue Iris for Home Security Cameras: Free Local AI Detection or a Paid Windows NVR
Felix Braun
October 17, 2026
Homelab
UGREEN NASync vs Synology for a First Home NAS: Open Hardware or the Polished OS
Henrik Voss
October 17, 2026
Developer Tools
Chezmoi vs GNU Stow for Dotfiles Across a Laptop and Home Servers
Tobias Keller
October 17, 2026
Self-Hosting
Emby vs Jellyfin for a Home Media Server: Paid Polish or Fully Free
Owen Brant
October 17, 2026
E-Ink Devices
PocketBook InkPad Color 3 vs Bigme B751C: A Closed E-Reader or an Open Android Colour Tablet
June Solis
October 17, 2026
Automation
Pipedream vs Activepieces for Solo-Dev Automations: Hosted Code Steps or a Self-Hosted Builder
Malik Okoye
October 17, 2026
Self-Hosting
Vaultwarden vs KeePassXC with Syncthing for a Family Password Vault
Marisol Vega
October 17, 2026
Self-Hosting
Seafile vs Nextcloud for Family File Sync: Fast Sync Only or the Whole Suite
Miriam Cho
October 17, 2026
Monitoring
Graylog vs Grafana Loki for Homelab Logs: Full-Text Search or Cheap Labels
Jesse Cole
October 17, 2026
Monitoring
LibreNMS vs Zabbix for Monitoring Home Network Switches and Access Points over SNMP
Grace Lin
October 17, 2026
Homelab
Beelink vs Minisforum Mini PCs for a Homelab: Thermals, BIOS Updates and Support
Sam Chen
October 16, 2026
Home Networking
pfSense vs OPNsense for a Homelab Firewall: Which One to Run on a Mini PC
Ruth Calloway
October 16, 2026
Linux
Ubuntu Server vs Debian for a Home Server: Snaps and LTS Kernels or Plain Stable
Tobias Keller
October 16, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Open WebUI vs LibreChat as a Household Front End for Local and Cloud AI Models
Theo Lang
October 16, 2026
E-Ink Devices
KOReader vs Moon+ Reader on an Android E-Ink Tablet: Page Turns, Refresh and EPUB Control
Rhea Calder
October 16, 2026
Monitoring
Beszel vs Netdata for Monitoring a Few Home Servers: A Light Agent or Per-Second Everything
Ivo Markham
October 16, 2026
Self-Hosting
Stalwart vs Mailcow for Self-Hosted Email: One Rust Server or the Full Docker Suite
Sofia Ferraro
October 16, 2026
DevOps
Woodpecker CI vs Forgejo Actions for a Self-Hosted Git Server: Separate Runner or Built-In Workflows
Nate Holbrook
October 16, 2026
Monitoring
Pushover vs a Telegram Bot for Homelab Alerts: A Paid Push App or a Free Chat Channel
Nadia Pell
October 16, 2026
Monitoring
Apprise vs ntfy for Homelab Notifications: One Library for Every Service or One Push App
Omar Fenton
October 16, 2026