Tag: self-hosting

Log Rotation for Self-Hosted Apps

Your app is logging to a single file. It's 50GB now. Here's how to rotate logs before your disk dies.

NocoDB: Because Airtable Doesn't Need to Know Your Business

NocoDB self-hosted: connect to existing Postgres/MySQL, build spreadsheet views, auto-generate APIs, and skip the Airtable subscription forever.

Plausible vs Umami: Privacy-Friendly Analytics That Won't Creep Out Your Users

Compare Plausible vs Umami for self-hosted, privacy-friendly web analytics. Ditch Google Analytics and keep your users' data off ad networks.

Tailscale Deep Dive: Mesh VPN That Just Works (and Why That's Suspicious)

Go beyond tailscale up with ACL policies, exit nodes, subnet routers, and MagicDNS. Plus: self-host your own control plane with Headscale for full independence.

Why Self-Hosted Apps Lose Data After Updates

You updated your container and your database is gone. Here's the volume permission mistake killing your data.

Vaultwarden Organization Sharing: Password Management for Your Whole Household (or Team)

Vaultwarden organizations let you share passwords with family or team members securely. Collections, permissions, CLI usage, and backup — all explained.

Nextcloud Advanced: Federation, Backups, and Making It Actually Performant

Nextcloud advanced configuration: Redis caching, federation setup, automated backups, occ command deep dive, LDAP, external storage, and PHP-FPM tuning.

MinIO + Nextcloud: S3-Compatible Storage That's Actually Yours

Replace Nextcloud's local filesystem with MinIO as an S3-compatible backend. Full Docker setup, bucket policies, performance tuning, and why this scales better.

Portainer vs Dockge: Managing Containers Without the Terminal

Portainer vs Dockge: two Docker GUIs for managing containers without the terminal. We compare features, setup, and which fits your self-hosting style.

Home Assistant + Node-RED: Automate Your Home Without Losing Your Mind

Home Assistant and Node-RED integration guide: Docker Compose setup, complex automation flows, presence detection, webhook triggers, and voice command pipelines.

Proxmox vs XCP-ng: Hypervisors for People Who Like Their Data Center at Home

Proxmox vs XCP-ng compared for homelabbers: KVM vs Xen, ZFS, web UI, VM management, and which hypervisor to pick for your spare rack server.

Wiki.js with GitSync: Documentation That Lives in Version Control Like It Should

Set up Wiki.js GitSync with GitHub or Gitea for docs-as-code. Version-controlled wikis, PR workflows, automated updates, and sane branch strategies.