Tag: self-hosting

One app logging to one file becomes a 50GB disk emergency. logrotate config, size-based rotation, Docker log driver limits, and app-level log control.

Self-hosted email with Mailcow or Stalwart means daily SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and IP blacklist battles. Here's the honest case against running your own mail server.

Drone CI went source-available, so its community forked it into Woodpecker CI. Compare pipeline syntax, licensing, Gitea support, and which one to run.

Self-hosting a ChatGPT alternative? Open WebUI owns local Ollama models; LibreChat handles Claude, GPT, Gemini, and more. Setup, RAG, and trade-offs compared.

Docker Compose reads env vars from three places and only one wins. The precedence order, the .env gotcha, when your shell wins, and how to debug it.

Compare Plausible vs Umami for self-hosted, privacy-friendly web analytics. Ditch Google Analytics and keep your users' data off ad networks.

Go beyond tailscale up with ACL policies, exit nodes, subnet routers, MagicDNS, and Taildrop. Plus: self-host your own control plane with Headscale.

Stop texting passwords. Set up Vaultwarden organizations to share credentials with family or your team: collections, member roles, the bw CLI, and backups.

Master Ollama with Modelfiles, GPU tuning, API usage, and performance tricks. Stop running 70B models on 8GB VRAM and wondering why everything is slow.

Your proxy serves the leaf certificate and skips the intermediate, so half your clients fail. How to spot it, build the chain right, and keep renewals working.

Nextcloud advanced configuration: Redis caching, federation setup, automated backups, occ command deep dive, LDAP, external storage, and PHP-FPM tuning.

BookStack uses a strict book/chapter hierarchy; Wiki.js is a linked web of pages. Both run in Docker with LDAP/SSO, pick the right one for your homelab.