Selfhosted Guides
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Self-Hosted Dashboards: Homepage, Homarr, and Dashy Compared
A practical guide to self-hosted server dashboards. Compare Homepage, Homarr, and Dashy for organizing your services, monitoring your infrastructure, and building a personal start page.
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PhotoPrism: AI-Powered Photo Management You Can Self-Host
A practical guide to self-hosting PhotoPrism for AI photo management with face recognition, auto-tagging, and RAW support. Covers Docker setup, hardware requirements, storage planning, and comparison with Immich.
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Zitadel: Cloud-Native Identity and Access Management You Can Self-Host
A guide to self-hosting Zitadel for identity and access management. Covers Docker setup, OIDC/OAuth2 configuration, multi-tenancy, and comparison with Authentik, Keycloak, and Authelia.
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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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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.
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Frigate NVR: Self-Hosted Security Cameras with AI Object Detection
A practical guide to Frigate, the self-hosted NVR with real-time AI object detection. Covers setup, hardware acceleration, camera configuration, Home Assistant integration, and comparison with commercial NVR solutions.
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Yacht: Simple Docker Container Management for Small Homelabs
A guide to self-hosting Yacht for Docker container management. Covers installation, template system, container management, and comparison with Portainer and Dockge for small homelab use cases.
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Self-Hosting Typesense: A Fast, Typo-Tolerant Search Engine
A practical guide to self-hosting Typesense as a search engine for your applications. Covers Docker deployment, collection schema design, search configuration, clustering, and comparison with Meilisearch and Elasticsearch.
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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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Self-Hosting Matrix with Element: Decentralized Chat You Actually Control
A practical guide to running your own Matrix homeserver with Element. Covers Synapse and Conduit, bridges to Slack and Discord, encryption, and why Matrix beats proprietary chat.
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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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Dockge: The Simplest Docker Compose Manager
Guide to self-hosting Dockge for managing Docker Compose stacks through a clean web UI. Covers installation, stack management, and comparison with Portainer and Yacht.
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Gluetun: Route Docker Containers Through a VPN
How to use Gluetun to route specific Docker containers through a VPN while keeping the rest of your network unaffected. Covers setup with major VPN providers, kill switch, and common use cases.
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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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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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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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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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Dashy: The Most Customizable Self-Hosted Dashboard
A guide to self-hosting Dashy, a highly customizable dashboard for organizing your services. Covers YAML configuration, widgets, themes, status checking, and comparison with Homepage and Homarr.
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Self-Hosting Zipline: A Modern File Sharing and Screenshot Server
A guide to self-hosting Zipline for file sharing and screenshot uploads. Covers Docker setup, ShareX integration, URL shortening, user management, and comparison with alternatives.
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Keycloak: Enterprise Identity Management for Your Homelab
A practical guide to self-hosting Keycloak for single sign-on (SSO), user management, and identity federation. Covers setup, OIDC, SAML, and integration with self-hosted apps.