Tag: self-hosting

Renovate vs Dependabot for self-hosted teams: config depth, ecosystem coverage, self-host paths, and which bot wins for Forgejo/GitLab shops.

Run real KVM virtual machines as Kubernetes resources on k3s. One control plane for pods and VMs, no more juggling Proxmox alongside your cluster every day.

Tailscale vs Nebula vs ZeroTier vs NetBird, honest comparison of mesh VPN options for homelabs, small teams, and self-hosters in 2026.

ClickHouse, DuckDB, or StarRocks for home lab analytics? A practical guide to picking the right OLAP engine for your query patterns without losing the weekend.

Speculative decoding, Gemma 4 MTP, and DeepSeek DSpark all make LLMs 2-6x faster losslessly. How each works, and which to use for local vs. serving.

Gitea Actions vs Woodpecker CI: two solid self-hosted CI options, one clear winner for your setup. Compare syntax, runners, footprint, and secrets handling.

How to safely add a NOT NULL column with a live backfill on a 200M-row Postgres table without locking your users out or scheduling any maintenance downtime.

Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is a self-hosted Pocket alternative with AI auto-tagging, full-text search, and Docker Compose deploy in under 10 minutes.

Firefly III is full-featured. Actual Budget is YNAB-style. Fava+Beancount is plain-text accounting. Here's how to pick self-hosted personal finance.

Build a real Postgres 17 HA cluster with Patroni 4.x, etcd 3.5, and HAProxy, fully automatic failover, tested switchover procedure, zero manual babysitting.

DragonflyDB vs Redis 8.x and Valkey 9.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.