Tag: self-hosting

Jellyfin vs Plex in 2026: features, mobile sync, and transcoding compared. Is Plex Pass still worth paying for, or has Jellyfin fully caught up for home lab?

LazyLibrarian vs Readarr for ebook and audiobook automation in 2026, why Readarr got retired, what to run instead, with real Docker Compose configs.

MinIO Community Edition was archived April 25, 2026. Here's why Garage (AGPL, Rust, NLnet-funded) is the right self-hosted S3 replacement and how to migrate.

NocoDB wraps any SQL database in a spreadsheet UI, self-host an Airtable alternative on top of MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite with Docker.

Self-hosting a ChatGPT alternative? Open WebUI owns local Ollama models; LibreChat handles Claude, GPT, Gemini, and more. Setup, RAG, and trade-offs compared.

Set up Paperless-ngx in Docker with Tesseract OCR, auto-tagging, IMAP email ingestion, and PostgreSQL, turn your document pile into a searchable archive.

Piper vs Coqui TTS compared: speed, voice quality, Docker setup, and Home Assistant integration. Run offline neural TTS on your own hardware, no cloud fees.

Make Plex actually fast: enable hardware transcoding, fix remote access without relay, tune Docker env vars, and decide if Jellyfin is calling your name.

Portainer, Dockge, and Dockhand compared side by side. Portainer handles fleets, Dockge nails single-host Compose, Dockhand gives you multi-host and SSO free.

Stakater Reloader watches ConfigMaps and Secrets and triggers rolling restarts automatically, so your pods always run current config, no kubectl rollout.

Restic forget, prune, and check: right order, real retention flags, cron automation, and why --read-data on a large repo will ruin your whole weekend.

Self-hosted email with Mailcow or Stalwart means daily SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and IP blacklist battles. Here's the honest case against running your own mail server.