Tag: self-hosting

DragonflyDB vs Redis 7.4 and Valkey 8.x: architecture deep dive, real performance benchmarks, honest gotchas, and when to swap your cache layer for a dragon.

ntfy is curl-friendly push with iOS. Gotify is self-hosted with web UI. Apprise abstracts 70+ providers. Here's how to wire homelab notifications.

Sync files between machines that are never online together using Syncthing's untrusted encrypted devices, dual-VPS failover, and a Tailscale-only network path.

Your media library doesn't write often enough to justify mdadm or ZFS overhead. SnapRAID calculates parity on a schedule, mixes drive sizes, and pairs with MergerFS for a unified pool. Here's the setup.

KeyDB forked Redis and shipped multi-threaded I/O and active-active replication years before Redis itself did. Here is whether it is still worth using today.

Three ActivityPub servers for your own fediverse instance. Mastodon polished, Misskey feature-rich, Pleroma/Akkoma lightweight. Here's how to pick.

Self-hosted secure email gateways compared: Proxmox Mail Gateway vs Hermes SEG vs DIY Rspamd, plus which classic appliances are now abandonware.

Postgres table bloat killing your query performance? Compare VACUUM FULL vs pg_repack and learn how to reclaim disk space live without any scheduled downtime.

Mailcow vs Mailu vs Stalwart compared, plus the deliverability minefield you'll have to survive — and the exact moment you should just pay Migadu instead.

Vikunja is a todo+kanban all-rounder. Focalboard is Trello-ish (archived). Taiga is agile/scrum. Here's how to pick self-hosted project management.

Three self-hosted RSS readers compared. FreshRSS is polished, Miniflux is minimalist, TT-RSS is feature-rich. Here's how to pick yours.

pg_stat_statements is far more than a slow query log. Here is what most tutorials skip entirely: tail latency percentiles, cache hit ratios, and WAL bloat.