Selfhosted Guides
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Stirling PDF: The Swiss Army Knife for PDF Processing
A comprehensive guide to self-hosting Stirling PDF for document processing. Covers Docker setup, merge/split/rotate, OCR, format conversion, form filling, security features, API automation, and comparison with online PDF tools.
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Self-Hosting AdGuard Home: Network-Wide Ad Blocking for Your Entire Home
A guide to self-hosting AdGuard Home for DNS-level ad blocking. Covers setup, comparison with Pi-hole, configuration tips, and honest trade-offs.
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Self-Hosting Tandoor Recipes: Your Personal Recipe Manager
A practical guide to self-hosting Tandoor Recipes for managing your recipe collection. Covers setup, importing recipes from websites, meal planning, shopping lists, and comparison with Mealie and Paprika.
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Syncthing: Peer-to-Peer File Sync Without a Server
A practical guide to Syncthing for decentralized file synchronization. Covers setup, sharing folders, conflict resolution, and comparison with Nextcloud, Dropbox, and Resilio Sync.
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Home Assistant: The Open Source Smart Home Hub That Replaces Everything
A practical guide to Home Assistant for self-hosting your smart home. Covers installation, device compatibility, automations, dashboards, and why it beats vendor-specific apps.
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Self-Hosting Excalidraw: A Collaborative Whiteboard That Feels Like Paper
A guide to self-hosting Excalidraw for collaborative diagramming and whiteboarding. Covers setup, real-time collaboration, comparison with draw.io, and practical use cases.
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Self-Hosting Jellyfin: A Free, Open Source Plex Alternative
A practical guide to self-hosting Jellyfin as a media server. Covers setup, hardware transcoding, client apps, and honest comparison with Plex.
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Self-Hosting Git with Gitea: A Lightweight GitHub Alternative
A practical guide to self-hosting Gitea as a GitHub/GitLab alternative. Covers features, resource usage, CI/CD with Gitea Actions, migration from GitHub, and when self-hosted git actually makes sense.
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The Complete *Arr Stack Guide: Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, and More
A comprehensive guide to building the full *arr stack for automated media management. Covers Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Lidarr, Docker Compose setup, quality profiles, and integration with Jellyfin or Plex.
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Linkwarden: Self-Hosted Bookmark Manager with Archiving
A practical guide to self-hosting Linkwarden for bookmark management. Covers Docker setup, browser extensions, collections, automatic archiving, collaboration, import/export, and comparison with Linkding and Wallabag.
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Self-Hosting Gotify: Simple Push Notifications for Your Server
A guide to self-hosting Gotify for push notifications. Covers setup, comparison with ntfy, integration with monitoring tools, and building notification workflows.
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Self-Hosted Email in 2026: Your Options from Practical to Paranoid
A realistic guide to self-hosting email. We cover the major options — Stalwart, Maddy, Mail-in-a-Box, mailcow — their trade-offs, and when you should just use a paid provider.
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Replacing Notion with a Self-Hosted Alternative: AppFlowy, AFFiNE, and Outline Compared
A detailed comparison of the top self-hosted Notion alternatives — AppFlowy, AFFiNE, and Outline. Features, setup, trade-offs, and honest recommendations.
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Self-Hosted Uptime Monitoring: Uptime Kuma, Gatus, and Statping-ng Compared
Compare the best self-hosted uptime monitoring tools. We cover Uptime Kuma, Gatus, and Statping-ng — with setup guides, feature comparisons, and honest trade-offs.
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Self-Hosting Vaultwarden: Run Your Own Bitwarden-Compatible Password Manager
Complete guide to self-hosting Vaultwarden — a lightweight Bitwarden-compatible password manager. Covers setup, security hardening, backups, and comparison with Bitwarden's official server.