Tag: self-hosting

Wire up QSV, VAAPI, or NVENC in Immich so face recognition and thumbnails run on the GPU, not your CPU. Step-by-step for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia hardware.

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.

Get Caddy running as a reverse proxy in Docker — automatic HTTPS, Caddyfile config, and Docker Compose setup in under 10 minutes.

Jellyfin vs Plex in 2026: features, mobile sync, and transcoding compared. Is Plex Pass still worth paying for, or has Jellyfin fully caught up for home lab?

LazyLibrarian vs Readarr for ebook and audiobook automation — honest comparison of features, maturity, and community support, with real Docker Compose configs.

MinIO Community Edition was archived April 25, 2026. Here's why Garage (AGPL, Rust, NLnet-funded) is the right self-hosted S3 replacement and how to migrate.

NocoDB wraps any SQL database in a spreadsheet UI — self-host an Airtable alternative on top of MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite with Docker.

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

Set up Paperless-ngx in Docker with Tesseract OCR, auto-tagging, IMAP email ingestion, and PostgreSQL — turn your document pile into a searchable archive.

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

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.

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.