Tag: self-hosting

Radicale or Baikal for a shared family calendar? Compose files, a rights file that shares one calendar, Caddy redirects, and the DAVx5 and iOS sync gotchas.

Temporal vs cron plus bash for multi-step home lab jobs: what durable workflows buy you, the setup cost, and when a systemd timer is the smarter choice.

journald already stores structured key/value log fields. Learn to write custom fields, query them, and ship logs to one box before reaching for Loki or ELK.

AppFlowy vs Notion in 2026: the self-host server is now proprietary and the free tier is one browser seat. Licensing, Docker Compose setup, and real prices.

LinuxGSM manages 140 game servers from one script. Compare bare-metal tmux plus cron against the official Docker image, using a Valheim server as the example.

SurrealDB promises documents, graphs, search and realtime in one binary. I tested it against Postgres to see where that pitch holds up for self-hosters in 2026.

Loading model weights, not math, is your GPU bottleneck. Continuous batching with llama-server serves many concurrent requests for close to the cost of one.

Configure OPNsense gateway groups for WAN failover and load balancing, then layer policy-based routing so specific hosts or VLANs use a chosen WAN link.

RabbitMQ vs NATS for a self-hosted app: routing, delivery guarantees, Docker Compose setups, Python code, and which broker to run for background jobs.

Meilisearch and Typesense both promise instant search without Elasticsearch's weight. I ran both in Docker and picked a winner per self-hosted use case.

A 2026-09-22 patch left a self-hosted model's weights untouched but made it more confident on nonsense input. Six systems compared, real numbers only.

One central CrowdSec LAPI, remote log-parsing agents, and bouncers on every box, so an SSH brute-force on one server gets blocked everywhere else too.