Selfhosted Guides
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Homarr: A Modern, Feature-Rich Self-Hosted Dashboard
How to set up Homarr as your self-hosted dashboard. Covers installation, widget configuration, service integrations, and comparison with Homepage and Heimdall.
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Self-Hosting Ghostfolio: Open Source Wealth Management and Portfolio Tracking
A guide to self-hosting Ghostfolio for investment portfolio tracking. Covers Docker setup, adding assets, multi-currency support, performance analysis, and comparison with Personal Capital and Sharesight.
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Self-Hosting Pangolin: The Tunneled Reverse Proxy with Built-in Auth
A practical guide to self-hosting Pangolin, a tunneled reverse proxy with built-in identity-aware access control. Covers setup, Newt WireGuard client, access policies, and comparison with Cloudflare Tunnels, Traefik, and Nginx Proxy Manager.
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Self-Hosting Ghost CMS: A Modern Blog Platform You Actually Own
A practical guide to self-hosting Ghost as your blog platform. Covers Docker deployment, theme customization, email newsletters, membership features, and comparison with WordPress and Hugo.
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Self-Hosting BookStack: A Wiki That Actually Gets Used
A practical guide to self-hosting BookStack for team documentation. Covers Docker deployment, organizing content with shelves, books, and chapters, LDAP/SAML authentication, API usage, and comparison with other wiki platforms.
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Docker Compose for Self-Hosting: The Complete Guide
Master Docker Compose for self-hosting — from first container to a full stack of services with networking, volumes, and automatic updates.
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Tailscale vs WireGuard: Which VPN Is Right for Your Homelab?
A practical comparison of Tailscale and raw WireGuard for self-hosted remote access. Covers setup complexity, performance, security, and when to use each for your homelab or small business.
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TrueNAS: Build Your Own Network Storage Server
A complete guide to building a self-hosted NAS with TrueNAS. Covers TrueNAS CORE vs SCALE, ZFS basics, hardware requirements, Docker apps, and comparison with Synology and QNAP.
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Self-Hosting Docmost: An Open Source Alternative to Notion and Confluence
A guide to self-hosting Docmost for team wikis and knowledge bases. Covers Docker setup, block editor, real-time collaboration, spaces, permissions, and comparison with BookStack, Wiki.js, and Outline.
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Beszel: Lightweight Server Monitoring with a Beautiful Dashboard
How to set up Beszel for monitoring server resources across multiple machines. Covers installation, agent deployment, alerting, and comparison with Netdata and Grafana.
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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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Plex vs Jellyfin: Which Self-Hosted Media Server Should You Choose?
An honest comparison of Plex and Jellyfin for self-hosted media streaming. Covers features, performance, client support, transcoding, and which one is right for your setup.
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Self-Hosting Strapi: A Headless CMS for Your Frontend Stack
A practical guide to self-hosting Strapi as a headless CMS. Covers Docker deployment, content type design, REST and GraphQL APIs, media handling, and comparison with Ghost, Directus, and WordPress.
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Self-Hosting Mastodon: Run Your Own Fediverse Social Media Instance
A guide to self-hosting Mastodon for decentralized social media. Covers Docker deployment, federation, moderation, storage management, and comparison with GoToSocial, Akkoma, and Misskey.
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Healthchecks: Self-Hosted Cron Job and Background Task Monitoring
How to self-host Healthchecks for monitoring cron jobs, backups, and scheduled tasks. Covers installation, ping-based monitoring, alerting, and integration with your existing infrastructure.
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CrowdSec: Collaborative Intrusion Prevention for Your Self-Hosted Services
A practical guide to CrowdSec, the open-source security tool that blocks attackers using crowd-sourced threat intelligence. Covers installation, bouncer setup, integration with reverse proxies, and how it compares to Fail2ban.
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CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban: Modern Intrusion Prevention for Self-Hosters
A detailed comparison of CrowdSec and Fail2Ban for protecting self-hosted services. Covers setup, configuration, performance, and when to use each tool.
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SearXNG: Self-Host Your Own Private Search Engine
A practical guide to self-hosting SearXNG, a privacy-focused metasearch engine. Covers Docker setup, search engine configuration, rate limiting, public vs private instances, and customization.
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Centralized Logging with Loki and Grafana: The Lightweight ELK Alternative
A practical guide to self-hosting Grafana Loki for centralized log aggregation. Covers deployment with Docker, Promtail configuration, LogQL queries, alerting, and comparison with the ELK stack.
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Self-Hosting Firefly III: A Free Alternative to Mint and YNAB
A practical guide to self-hosting Firefly III for personal finance management. Covers Docker setup, double-entry bookkeeping, transaction imports, budgeting, and comparison with Mint, YNAB, and Actual Budget.