Self-Hosting

Do You Need a Domain Name for a Home Server?

Felix Braun

September 27, 2026

Reverse Proxy vs Cloudflare Tunnel vs Tailscale: What Does Each One Actually Do?

Jesse Cole

September 27, 2026

When Is n8n Overkill?

Sam Rivera

September 27, 2026

Docker Compose Backup Strategies for Beginners: What to Copy and How to Prove It Restores

Ellis Crowe

September 27, 2026

Healthchecks.io Slack vs ntfy: Which Failure Still Reaches You When the Laptop Is Shut

Diana Vos

September 22, 2026

ntfy on the Same Box as Kuma: The Alert Path That Dies With the Outage

Omar Fenton

September 22, 2026

Cloudflare Tunnel vs Tailscale Funnel: One Public URL Without Opening 443

Devin Harper

September 22, 2026

GlitchTip vs Sentry for a One-Person App: Error Tracking That Fits on the Same VPS

Felix Braun

September 22, 2026

A Used Mini PC vs a Raspberry Pi for Home Assistant Only: When the Board Is the Bottleneck

Drew Morrison

September 22, 2026

Rust vs Go for a Homelab Daemon: The Binary You Can Leave Running Unattended

Jesse Cole

September 22, 2026

A wget Healthcheck vs a Client Inside the Image: Containers That Pass Before the App Listens

Ivo Markham

September 22, 2026

A Second Uptime Kuma: When the Monitor Host Is the Thing That Dies

Omar Fenton

September 21, 2026

Kuma Maintenance Windows vs Healthchecks Grace: Planned Downtime That Still Pages You

Diana Vos

September 21, 2026

Uptime Kuma Keyword Monitors vs HTTP 200: Sites That Look Up While the App Is Dead

Ivo Markham

September 21, 2026

Coolify vs a Docker Compose File on a VPS: When the PaaS UI Hides the Deploy That Failed

Felix Braun

September 21, 2026

Gatus vs Uptime Kuma: When a YAML File Beats Another Docker Dashboard

Jonah Reeves

September 21, 2026

Zero-Knowledge Password Managers vs Vaultwarden: What "Can't Read Your Vault" Still Leaks

Marisol Vega

September 18, 2026

Internal Tools for One Person: When n8n Beats a Weekend of Custom CRUD

Leila Voss

September 18, 2026

Caddy vs Nginx Proxy Manager for a Homelab: When a GUI Slows the Next Compose Rewrite

Nadia Okoye

September 18, 2026

Syncthing vs Nextcloud for Two Laptops: When File Sync Shouldn't Be a Suite

Felix Braun

September 18, 2026

What People Mean by Self-Hosted GitHub: Gitea Actions vs a $4 Runner You Forget Exists

Nate Holbrook

September 18, 2026

Caddy Automatic HTTPS vs Traefik Labels: Which Reverse Proxy Survives a Compose Rewrite

Nadia Okoye

August 25, 2026

Huginn vs n8n for RSS-to-Webhook: Which Self-Hosted Watcher Still Misses Items

Jonah Reeves

August 25, 2026

soft-serve vs Gitea for a Personal Remote: When You Don't Need Issues

Chris Vale

August 25, 2026

Audiobookshelf vs Plex for Podcasts: The Library That Isn't a Movie

Owen Brant

August 25, 2026

Paperless-ngx vs a Folder of PDFs: When OCR Jobs Fill the Disk

Ruth Ellison

August 25, 2026

Immich vs Google Photos: What Breaks When the Library Outgrows the Box

Leona Hart

August 25, 2026

Vaultwarden vs Bitwarden Cloud: What You Actually Lose When the Box Goes Dark

Marisol Vega

August 25, 2026

Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home vs Router DNS: Which Filter Stack Actually Stays Up

Rosa Delgado

August 25, 2026

Headscale vs Tailscale for a Household: The Control-Plane Trade-off Nobody Mentions

Julian Park

August 25, 2026