docker

The Best Self-Hosted Apps for a First Home Server: What to Install in Week One

Self-Hosting

The Best Self-Hosted Apps for a First Home Server: What to Install in Week One

Sam Chen

Sam Chen

October 20, 2026

Graceful Shutdown on a Power Cut: Getting NUT to Stop the NAS, Proxmox and Docker in the Right Order

Homelab

Graceful Shutdown on a Power Cut: Getting NUT to Stop the NAS, Proxmox and Docker in the Right Order

Gareth Cole

Gareth Cole

October 20, 2026

Homepage vs Homarr for a Homelab Dashboard: YAML Files or Drag and Drop

Homelab

Homepage vs Homarr for a Homelab Dashboard: YAML Files or Drag and Drop

Nadia Okoye

Nadia Okoye

October 20, 2026

Beszel vs Netdata for Monitoring a Few Home Servers: A Light Agent or Per-Second Everything

Monitoring

Beszel vs Netdata for Monitoring a Few Home Servers: A Light Agent or Per-Second Everything

Ivo Markham

Ivo Markham

October 16, 2026

Dozzle vs Grafana Loki for Docker Logs on One Home Server: Live Tail or Searchable History

Homelab

Dozzle vs Grafana Loki for Docker Logs on One Home Server: Live Tail or Searchable History

Ivo Markham

Ivo Markham

October 14, 2026

Which monitor has to live on a different machine than the service it watches?

Homelab

Monitoring

Which monitor has to live on a different machine than the service it watches?

Jonah Hale

Jonah Hale

October 7, 2026

Logs for an Agent-Built App: What You Need When You Did Not Write the Handler

DevOps

Software Development

Logs for an Agent-Built App: What You Need When You Did Not Write the Handler

Elena Vasquez

Elena Vasquez

September 30, 2026

Docker on a VPS vs a Platform Build When the Agent Wrote the Dockerfile

DevOps

Self-Hosting

Docker on a VPS vs a Platform Build When the Agent Wrote the Dockerfile

Ivo Markham

Ivo Markham

September 30, 2026

NAS vs Mini PC: Which Should Run Your Docker Containers?

Docker

Homelab

NAS vs Mini PC: Which Should Run Your Docker Containers?

Duncan Hale

Duncan Hale

September 27, 2026

How Much RAM Does a Home Server Actually Need?

Homelab

Self-Hosting

How Much RAM Does a Home Server Actually Need?

Sam Chen

Sam Chen

September 27, 2026

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

Homelab

Self-Hosting

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

Ivo Markham

Ivo Markham

September 21, 2026

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

Homelab

Self-Hosting

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

Jonah Reeves

Jonah Reeves

September 21, 2026

Mailcow vs Mailu: When the Full Suite Makes Self-Hosted Email Worse

Homelab

Self-Hosted Email

Mailcow vs Mailu: When the Full Suite Makes Self-Hosted Email Worse

Greg Foster

Greg Foster

September 18, 2026

Mailu vs Mail-in-a-Box: When the Docker Email Stack Still Can't Clear Gmail

Homelab

Self-Hosted Email

Mailu vs Mail-in-a-Box: When the Docker Email Stack Still Can't Clear Gmail

Sofia Ferraro

Sofia Ferraro

September 18, 2026

Activepieces vs n8n: Which Self-Hosted Zapier Clone Still Needs You at 2 a.m.

Workflow Automation

Activepieces vs n8n: Which Self-Hosted Zapier Clone Still Needs You at 2 a.m.

Leila Voss

Leila Voss

August 25, 2026

Typesense vs Meilisearch for Indie Apps: Which Search Engine You Can Actually Operate Alone

Software Development

Typesense vs Meilisearch for Indie Apps: Which Search Engine You Can Actually Operate Alone

Owen Bridger

Owen Bridger

August 25, 2026