Tag: self-hosting

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.

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.