Tag: self-hosting

Your reverse proxy only has the leaf cert, not the intermediate. Here's why that kills half your connections.

TLS tunneling for legacy plaintext services — stunnel's X.509 cert model vs spiped's pre-shared key simplicity, and when each one actually wins.

Zabbix is enterprise-grade monitoring that you can self-host — agents, templates, triggers, and dashboards for your entire home lab.

Run a WireGuard VPN server inside Docker — wg-easy setup, peer config generation, and getting road warrior access to your home network.

Run WordPress on PHP-FPM with Caddy as the web server — all in Docker Compose with automatic HTTPS and proper PHP config.

Two ways to route LLM traffic across providers — OpenRouter as a hosted gateway, LiteLLM as a self-hosted proxy. Which one fits your home lab in 2026?

Google Photos went paid and the alternatives matured fast. Immich, PhotoPrism, and Ente: which self-hosted photo library actually fits your life in 2026?

Picking a recursive DNS resolver for your home lab — Unbound, Technitium, and BIND9 compared on speed, GUI, DNSSEC, and split-horizon.

HACS custom integrations can brick your Home Assistant setup overnight. Here's how to use them safely, recover when they don't, and know when to skip them.

ntopng vs darkstat: full DPI flow analysis vs a tiny always-on stats page. Pick the right tool for home-lab network visibility without losing your mind.

AnythingLLM is the closest thing to a real private NotebookLM you can self-host. Workspaces, RAG, agents, document chat — running locally on Ollama in 20 minutes.

HAOS Add-Ons vs bare Docker Compose for Mosquitto, ESPHome, Frigate — when the Supervisor magic is genuinely worth it and when it just gets in your way.