Monitoring
Self-Hosting
ntfy on the Same Box as Kuma: The Alert Path That Dies With the Outage
Omar Fenton
September 22, 2026
Networking
Self-Hosting
Cloudflare Tunnel vs Tailscale Funnel: One Public URL Without Opening 443
Devin Harper
September 22, 2026
Self-Hosting
Smart Home
A Used Mini PC vs a Raspberry Pi for Home Assistant Only: When the Board Is the Bottleneck
Drew Morrison
September 22, 2026
Self-Hosting
Software Development
Rust vs Go for a Homelab Daemon: The Binary You Can Leave Running Unattended
Jesse Cole
September 22, 2026
Homelab
Networking
Tailscale Serve vs Opening a Port: One Homelab Service Without Funnel
Julian Park
September 21, 2026
Homelab
Networking
Tailscale Key Expiry: The Phone That Quietly Drops Off the Tailnet
Mira Kessler
September 21, 2026
Homelab
Networking
Tailscale MagicDNS vs Pi-hole: Which Resolver Wins When Both Claim Your LAN
Benito Ruiz
September 21, 2026
Homelab
Networking
Tailscale ACLs for a Household: When Sharing the Whole Tailnet Is the Mistake
Mira Kessler
September 21, 2026
Homelab
Self-Hosting
A Second Uptime Kuma: When the Monitor Host Is the Thing That Dies
Omar Fenton
September 21, 2026
Homelab
Self-Hosting
Kuma Maintenance Windows vs Healthchecks Grace: Planned Downtime That Still Pages You
Diana Vos
September 21, 2026
Homelab
Self-Hosting
Uptime Kuma Keyword Monitors vs HTTP 200: Sites That Look Up While the App Is Dead
Ivo Markham
September 21, 2026
Homelab
Self-Hosting
Gatus vs Uptime Kuma: When a YAML File Beats Another Docker Dashboard
Jonah Reeves
September 21, 2026
Homelab
Mesh Networking
Headscale Funnel vs Tailscale Funnel: Exposing a Homelab Without Opening 443
Julian Park
September 18, 2026
Homelab
Object Storage
Garage vs MinIO for Home Object Storage: When S3 Compatibility Isn't Enough to Restore
Duncan Pell
August 25, 2026
Homelab
Software Development
Cobra vs clap-rs for a Homelab CLI: When the Flag Parser Becomes Half the Project
Sable Quinn
August 25, 2026
Homelab
Linux
Chezmoi vs yadm for Dotfiles: When Two Homelab Boxes Disagree on PATH
Tobias Keller
August 25, 2026
Homelab
Networking
Starlink CGNAT vs a Homelab: When Inbound Ports Are the Product
Elise Ward
August 25, 2026
Home Networking
Mesh Networking
Tailscale SSH vs Opening Port 22: The Fail2ban Ritual You Can Delete
Marcus Bell
August 25, 2026
Photo Libraries
Self-Hosting
Immich vs Google Photos: What Breaks When the Library Outgrows the Box
Leona Hart
August 25, 2026
Password Managers
Self-Hosting
Vaultwarden vs Bitwarden Cloud: What You Actually Lose When the Box Goes Dark
Marisol Vega
August 25, 2026
Home Networking
Self-Hosting
Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home vs Router DNS: Which Filter Stack Actually Stays Up
Rosa Delgado
August 25, 2026
Mesh Networking
Self-Hosting
Headscale vs Tailscale for a Household: The Control-Plane Trade-off Nobody Mentions
Julian Park
August 25, 2026
Productivity
Software Development
The Case for a Homelab in 2026: What You Can Learn That Cloud Can't Teach
Jesse Cole
July 7, 2026
Linux & Open Source
Privacy & Digital Rights
How Open-Source Firmware Projects Are Keeping Old Routers Alive
Lars Beckmann
July 7, 2026
Homelab & Self-Hosting
Privacy & Digital Rights
What Self-Hosting Your Own Services Actually Teaches You About Cloud Dependence
Felix Braun
July 7, 2026
Desktop Computers & Hardware
Infrastructure & Systems
Why Hot-Plug NVMe Is Finally Worth Caring About for Homelab Users
Marcus Holt
July 7, 2026
DIY & Maker Culture
Infrastructure & Systems
Setting Up a Home NAS With a Used Synology: What to Expect Before You Buy
Jesse Cole
July 7, 2026
DIY & Maker Culture
Sustainability
What Happens When You Run a Home Lab Purely on Renewable Energy
Tom Gallagher
July 7, 2026
Software Development
Docker Compose Healthchecks in the Homelab: Why Your Stack "Looks Up" but Isn't Ready
Tobias Mensah
May 9, 2026
Self-Hosted Tools
Software Development
Self-Hosting Uptime Kuma vs Healthchecks.io: Honest Trade-offs for Solo Builders
Tobias Mensah
April 7, 2026