Tag: self-hosting

Garrul's 2026-05-25 roadmap promised moderation tools, a faster widget, and admin polish. 89 days and 53 releases later, here is the honest scorecard.

Head-to-head comparison of Unmanic and Tdarr transcode pipelines, config style, plugins, workers, GPU support, and when to pick each.

Batch transcode h264 to h265 or AV1 with Tdarr. GPU/CPU strategies, plugin flows, Docker Compose setup, and storage savings math for your media server.

HyperDX (ClickHouse, session replay) vs OpenObserve (Rust, cheap object storage), two modern self-hosted observability platforms compared for homelabbers.

Home Assistant disaster recovery: off-site backups, secrets handling, Z2M coordinator, restore drills that catch missing pieces.

Calibre, Calibre-Web, and Kavita compared for a self-hosted ebook library. Format support, reading experience, and which one belongs on your NAS.

Navidrome vs Funkwhale for self-hosted music streaming. Subsonic API support, mobile clients, federation, and which one fits a homelab in 2026.

Tautulli's notification webhooks, automation, transcode alerts, and custom triggers unlock Plex monitoring beyond leaderboards and statistics charts.

Overseerr is Plex-only. Jellyseerr forked it for Jellyfin and Emby. How the two media request frontends compare on auth, setup, and Sonarr integration.

Self-hosted *arr stack (Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr) with durable Docker Compose. Hardlinks, folder layout, no breakage.

Set up Playwright synthetic monitoring: scheduled headless browser checks, login flow validation, and pass/fail metrics piped into Grafana dashboards.

VictoriaMetrics as a Prometheus drop-in replacement: lower RAM footprint, longer retention, better compression. When the switch actually pays off.