Tag: self-hosting

Akismet's licensing terms are increasingly hostile to small sites. Here are 11 spam-protection options, hosted APIs, CAPTCHA widgets, and DIY honeypots, that actually work in 2026.

Mailcow vs Mailu vs Stalwart compared on RAM, features, and deliverability, plus the DNS you cannot skip and when paying Migadu is the smarter call.

Ceph on 3 nodes: real hardware requirements, honest performance tradeoffs, and exactly when distributed storage beats a plain NFS share for your home lab.

Cosmos, CasaOS, and Umbrel each try to make self-hosting one-click. Here's how they actually compare on UI, security, app catalogs, and the all-important escape hatch when you outgrow them.

Set up Snapper on Btrfs to auto-snapshot before every system update, roll back broken machines in minutes, and never lose a working root filesystem again.

Plex tripled the lifetime price to $749. Here's a decision tree plus a working Jellyfin migration plan: Docker, transcoding, clients, watch history.

sanoid manages ZFS snapshot policies automatically, syncoid replicates them over SSH to remote pools, together they're the lowest-effort offsite backup strategy for any ZFS user.

Stop letting every machine write directly to S3. Kopia repository server gives you shared dedup, per-host auth, and sane maintenance, all in one place.

Ran 9 real headless tools against an echo server. Sec-Fetch alone catches almost none of them. Here's what actually leaks, WAF rules that work, and where Anubis fits in.

Pipe ZFS incremental snapshots through WireGuard to a friend's NAS or a remote VPS. Encrypted in transit and at rest, no rsync.net bill or vendor lock-in.

Restic forget, prune, and check: right order, real retention flags, cron automation, and why --read-data on a large repo will ruin your whole weekend.

Disqus is a tracker farm wearing a comment box costume. Here's every real alternative, self-hosted and SaaS, and which one actually fits your blog.