Tag: self-hosting

Escaping Zim: Migrate to Obsidian

Migrate your Zim Wiki notes to Obsidian using zim2obsidian, escape a dated GTK app for modern sync, mobile access, and a thriving plugin ecosystem.

Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: Block Ads for Your Whole Network

Browser ad blockers miss half the ads. DNS blocking kills them everywhere, TV, phone, game console, everything. Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: here's which one to run.

Ollama Model Management: Beyond ollama run

You can pull and run a model. Now learn Modelfiles, GPU layer tuning, the REST API, running multiple models without OOM-killing your server, and useful system prompts.

Restic vs Borg vs Kopia: Backups That Actually Deduplicate

rsync is not a backup. Restic, Borg, and Kopia do deduplication, encryption, and incremental snapshots properly. Here's which one fits your home lab and why.

Suricata vs Snort: Network Intrusion Detection That Actually Works

Snort invented network intrusion detection. Suricata multi-threaded its way past it. Here's how to set up real IDS/IPS on your home lab and actually understand what it's telling you.

Continue.dev vs Cody vs Tabby: AI Code Help Without the Cloud

GitHub Copilot is great until you read the ToS. Continue.dev, Cody, and Tabby bring AI code assistance to your editor with local or self-hosted models, no code leaves your machine.

Gitea vs Forgejo vs GitLab CE: Self-Hosted Git Without the Existential Crisis

You want to self-host your git. Noble. Responsible, even. But now you're staring down three options and a Reddit thread that's somehow both 4 years old and still being argued about. Gitea, Forgejo, GitLab CE, let's cut through the noise and figure out which one won't ruin your weekend.

WireGuard Is Fast, But You're Leaving Performance on the Table

WireGuard is fast out of the box, but default config leaves throughput on the table. Tune MTU, use the kernel module, and benchmark what you actually get.

Vault vs Infisical: Secrets Management for Teams Who've Learned the Hard Way

Your database password is in 14 different `.env` files across three repos, one of which is public on GitHub. Somewhere out there, a bot is already trying it. It's time to fix the secrets sprawl problem, and pick the right tool to do it without spending three weeks on setup.

Cockpit vs Webmin: Web Admin Panels That Don't Make You Cry

Cockpit is the modern systemd-native Linux admin panel. Webmin is the veteran that configures everything. Here's which one should be on your servers, and which shouldn't.

Cloudflare Tunnels: Beyond Port Forwarding

No port forwarding, no DDNS drama. Real cloudflared config: multiple services per tunnel, Access policies, origin TLS, and what Cloudflare can actually see.

Prometheus + Grafana: Monitoring That Doesn't Lie to You

Prometheus scrapes metrics. Grafana makes them pretty. Alertmanager wakes you up at 2 AM. Here's how to wire all three together into a monitoring stack that actually works.