Tag: self-hosting

Sync files between machines that are never online together using Syncthing's untrusted encrypted devices, dual-VPS failover, and a Tailscale-only network path.

SnapRAID calculates parity on a schedule instead of in real time, so it mixes drive sizes and pairs with MergerFS. Best fit for media that rarely changes.

KeyDB forked Redis and shipped multi-threaded I/O and active-active replication years before Redis itself did. Here is whether it is still worth using today.

Three ActivityPub servers for your own fediverse instance. Mastodon polished, Misskey feature-rich, Pleroma/Akkoma lightweight. Here's how to pick.

Self-hosted secure email gateways compared: Proxmox Mail Gateway vs Hermes SEG vs DIY Rspamd, plus which classic appliances are now abandonware.

Postgres table bloat killing your query performance? Compare VACUUM FULL vs pg_repack and learn how to reclaim disk space live without any scheduled downtime.

Vikunja is a todo+kanban all-rounder. Focalboard is Trello-ish (archived). Taiga is agile/scrum. Here's how to pick self-hosted project management.

Three self-hosted RSS readers compared. FreshRSS is polished, Miniflux is minimalist, TT-RSS is feature-rich. Here's how to pick yours.

pg_stat_statements is far more than a slow query log. Here is what most tutorials skip entirely: tail latency percentiles, cache hit ratios, and WAL bloat.

How to expose a possibly-vulnerable app to the public internet and survive it: rootless containers, a file-integrity tripwire, and zero inbound SSH on the box.

Mealie is the polished recipe app. Tandoor is the kitchen-ops powerhouse. Grocy tracks your entire house. Here's how to pick a self-hosted kitchen stack.

Learn to read Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE output without losing your mind. Costs, row estimates, buffer hit stats, and the index and query fixes that matter most.