Selfhosted Guides
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Self-Hosted Backups with BorgBackup and Restic: A Practical Comparison
A hands-on guide to self-hosted backup solutions using BorgBackup and Restic. Covers deduplication, encryption, remote storage, and how to build a reliable 3-2-1 backup strategy for your homelab.
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Kavita: A Self-Hosted Reading Server for Books, Comics, and Manga
A practical guide to self-hosting Kavita for managing your reading library. Covers Docker setup, library organization, OPDS support, reader features, and comparison with Komga and Calibre-Web.
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Self-Hosting Discourse: Build a Modern Community Forum
A practical guide to self-hosting Discourse as a community forum. Covers the official Docker installation, configuration, moderation, SSO, plugins, email setup, and comparison with Flarum.
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Self-Hosting Immich: A Google Photos Replacement That Actually Works
A guide to self-hosting Immich for photo and video management. Covers setup, mobile apps, machine learning features, migration from Google Photos, and honest trade-offs.
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Self-Hosting ntfy: Simple Push Notifications for Your Server
A practical guide to self-hosting ntfy for push notifications. Covers setup, sending alerts from scripts and services, phone integration, access control, and comparison with Gotify and Pushover.
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How to Self-Host a Minecraft Server: Complete Setup Guide
A practical guide to running your own Minecraft server. Covers hardware requirements, Java vs Bedrock, server software options, Docker setup, performance tuning, and keeping your server secure.
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Self-Hosting Changedetection.io: Monitor Any Website for Changes
A guide to self-hosting changedetection.io for website change monitoring. Covers setup, notification integrations, visual diffing, filtering, and practical use cases.
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Vaultwarden vs Bitwarden: Which Self-Hosted Password Manager Is Right for You?
An in-depth comparison of Vaultwarden and Bitwarden for self-hosted password management. Covers features, resource usage, security considerations, and which one to choose for your setup.
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Self-Hosting Traefik: The Modern Reverse Proxy for Your Home Lab
A practical guide to setting up Traefik as a reverse proxy for your self-hosted services. Covers automatic HTTPS, Docker integration, middleware, and comparison with Nginx Proxy Manager and Caddy.
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Portainer: The Docker Management UI That Makes Self-Hosting Easier
A practical guide to Portainer for managing Docker containers through a web interface. Covers installation, container management, stacks, templates, and comparison with other Docker UIs.
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Self-Hosting Plausible Analytics: A Privacy-Friendly Google Analytics Alternative
A complete guide to self-hosting Plausible Analytics as a lightweight, privacy-respecting replacement for Google Analytics. Covers setup, features, costs, and trade-offs.
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Self-Hosting Calibre-Web: Your Personal Ebook Library in the Cloud
A practical guide to self-hosting Calibre-Web for managing and reading your ebook collection. Covers setup, OPDS feeds, Kindle integration, and comparison with Calibre desktop and Kavita.
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Self-Hosting MinIO: S3-Compatible Object Storage on Your Own Hardware
A guide to self-hosting MinIO for S3-compatible object storage. Covers setup, use cases, backup integration, performance tuning, and comparison with cloud S3.
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Self-Hosting Nextcloud: The Complete Google Drive & Dropbox Replacement
How to replace Google Drive, Dropbox, and iCloud with Nextcloud — a self-hosted file sync, calendar, contacts, and collaboration platform. Covers setup, apps, performance tuning, and honest trade-offs.
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Caddy: The Easiest Self-Hosted Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
A practical guide to self-hosting Caddy as your web server and reverse proxy. Covers automatic HTTPS, Caddyfile configuration, reverse proxy setup, and comparison with Nginx and Traefik.
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Self-Hosting Grafana and Prometheus: Build Your Own Monitoring Stack
A guide to self-hosting Grafana and Prometheus for server and application monitoring. Covers setup, dashboards, alerting, and comparison with paid alternatives.
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Self-Hosting Authelia: Add Single Sign-On to All Your Services
A guide to self-hosting Authelia for single sign-on and two-factor authentication. Covers setup with reverse proxies, MFA configuration, and comparison with alternatives.
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K3s: Lightweight Kubernetes for Self-Hosters
A practical guide to running K3s for self-hosted applications. Covers single-node and multi-node setup, deploying apps, Helm charts, persistent storage, Traefik ingress, cert-manager, and comparison with Docker Compose and Nomad.
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OPNsense: Build Your Own Enterprise Firewall and Router
A comprehensive guide to replacing your consumer router with OPNsense. Covers hardware selection, installation, firewall rules, VLANs, WireGuard VPN, IDS/IPS with Suricata, and comparison with pfSense.
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Setting Up WireGuard: The Modern Self-Hosted VPN
A practical guide to setting up WireGuard as a self-hosted VPN. Covers server setup, client configuration, common use cases, and comparison with OpenVPN and commercial VPN services.