Tag: self-hosting

Run Sentry on your own hardware to catch real application errors, stack traces, source maps, release tracking, alerts, and when you should just pay for SaaS.

Heimdall, Homepage, or Homer? Pick the right self-hosted dashboard for your homelab, real configs, Docker auto-discovery, and live API status widgets included.

Stop guessing which container is eating your RAM. Set up cAdvisor + Prometheus to get real per-container CPU, memory, and network metrics in your homelab.

TeamViewer costs a fortune, AnyDesk wants a subscription, and Chrome Remote Desktop routes everything through Google. Here's how RustDesk and MeshCentral stack up as self-hosted alternatives, and which one fits your use case.

Grafana Agent hit EOL in November 2025. Here is how to migrate all your monitoring nodes to Alloy without losing your mind, your metrics, or your dashboards.

Replace five scattered agents with one OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline, metrics, logs, and traces unified with real config you can drop into a home server.

I looked at a lot of self-hosted comment systems. None of the ones I wanted ran on Cloudflare Workers. So I wrote one. Here's the story and the deploy.

Glance, Homepage, and Dashy compared: speed, setup overhead, widget depth, and which self-hosted dashboard actually holds up after a year of homelab use.

Backblaze B2 plus rclone builds a tiered home lab backup that survives AWS egress fees. Bucket layout, lifecycle rules, and the restore test people skip.

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.