Tag: self-hosting

Real cloudflared config: many services on one tunnel, Access policies, origin TLS, what quick tunnels are for, and what Cloudflare can see in your traffic.

Immich vs PhotoPrism compared side-by-side: mobile app, ML face detection, Docker setup, and the real gotchas before you ditch Google Photos for good.

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.

Fail2ban bans IPs that attack you. CrowdSec bans them before they attack you, using community threat intelligence. Here's how to set up both and why you might want both.

Every RAG tutorial says 'just use Chroma.' Then you hit production. Here's what Qdrant, Weaviate, and ChromaDB actually offer and when each one earns its place.

GitLab CE does everything and wants all your RAM. Gitea and Forgejo run on a Raspberry Pi. Here's which self-hosted git platform actually fits your setup.

DRAM prices are killing the hobbyist SBC market, but there are still great options. Here's what's worth buying in 2026 for a sub-$200 homelab setup.

Cloudflare rebuilt WordPress from scratch in TypeScript using AI agents. Sandboxed plugins, Astro themes, self-hostable. It's called EmDash and it's actually interesting.

Google Drive, Gmail, Photos, Calendar, Maps, Analytics, all replaceable with self-hosted alternatives that don't report your life back to Mountain View.

Stop letting Docker Hub throttle your CI/CD. Run Harbor for RBAC, Trivy scanning, image replication, and a real UI, on infrastructure you control.

Run multiple Proxmox VMs and LXC containers behind a single public IP using NAT bridging and iptables port forwarding. Works on Proxmox VE 8 and 9.

Portainer, Dockge, and Dockhand compared side by side. Portainer handles fleets, Dockge nails single-host Compose, Dockhand gives you multi-host and SSO free.