Tag: self-hosting

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.

RAID 6 and RAID 10 both survive two dead disks and both need four drives. But they get there completely differently, and that difference matters.

RAID 0 is fast and terrifying, RAID 1 is boring and beautiful, RAID 5 is the NAS compromise. How to pick the right one for your home lab drives.

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

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.

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.

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.

2026 home lab hardware picks: N100/N150 mini PCs, used rack servers, NAS options, UPS, and switches, plus the power-draw math you need to justify the build.

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.

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?

Authelia is a bouncer. Authentik is the whole security desk. Pick the right self-hosted SSO for your home lab, with working configs, gotchas, and a migration path.

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.