Selfhosted Guides
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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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Uptime Kuma: Self-Hosted Uptime Monitoring and Status Pages
Complete guide to setting up Uptime Kuma for monitoring service availability. Covers installation, monitor types, notifications, status pages, and maintenance windows.
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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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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 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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Proxmox VE: The Self-Hoster's Virtualization Platform
Run virtual machines and containers on bare metal with Proxmox VE — the free, open-source hypervisor that powers serious home labs.
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Pi-hole: Network-Wide Ad Blocking for Your Entire Home
A complete guide to setting up Pi-hole for network-wide DNS-based ad blocking. Covers installation, configuration, blocklists, performance tuning, and comparison with browser-based ad blockers.
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Coolify: A Self-Hosted Heroku That Actually Delivers
A practical guide to self-hosting Coolify as a platform-as-a-service for deploying apps, databases, and services. Covers setup, Git integration, one-click apps, and comparison with Dokku and CapRover.
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Self-Hosting Meilisearch: Lightning-Fast Full-Text Search for Your Apps
A practical guide to self-hosting Meilisearch for full-text search. Covers Docker deployment, index configuration, relevancy tuning, security, and comparison with Elasticsearch and Typesense.
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Vikunja: Self-Hosted Task Management That Replaces Todoist and Trello
A practical guide to Vikunja, the open-source self-hosted task and project management tool. Covers setup, features, integrations, and how it compares to Todoist, Trello, and Notion for personal and team productivity.
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Forgejo: The Community-Driven Self-Hosted Git Forge
Host your own GitHub-like platform with Forgejo — a lightweight, community-owned Git forge born from Gitea, with CI/CD, packages, and issue tracking.
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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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Running Matrix Synapse: Self-Hosted Encrypted Messaging at Scale
A deep dive into deploying Matrix Synapse as your homeserver for encrypted messaging. Covers Docker deployment, federation, database optimization, bridges, worker scaling, and performance tuning.
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Authentik: The Self-Hosted Identity Provider That Hits the Sweet Spot
A practical guide to self-hosting Authentik for SSO, OAuth2, SAML, and user management. Covers Docker setup, LDAP integration, and how it compares to Authelia and Keycloak.
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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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IT-Tools: A Self-Hosted Swiss Army Knife for Developers
Set up IT-Tools as a self-hosted collection of developer utilities. Covers installation, available tools, and why you'd want a local instance of common online converters and generators.
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Audiobookshelf: Self-Hosted Audiobooks and Podcasts Done Right
A complete guide to Audiobookshelf, the self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with mobile apps. Covers setup, library organization, podcast management, and how it compares to Audible and Pocketcasts.
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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 AI with Ollama and Open WebUI: Run LLMs Locally
A practical guide to running large language models locally with Ollama and Open WebUI. Covers Docker setup, GPU vs CPU considerations, model recommendations, and hardware requirements.
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Netdata: Real-Time Server Monitoring Without the Complexity
A practical guide to Netdata for self-hosted server monitoring. Zero-config installation, real-time dashboards, alerting, and how it compares to Grafana and Prometheus.