Tag: self-hosting

traceroute lies. mtr tells the truth. Here's how to read packet-loss reports like an oncall engineer and stop blaming your ISP for the wrong hop.

Track which room you're in with cheap ESP32 nodes and BLE signal distance — real room-level presence for Home Assistant automations that actually work.

Picking a cheap VPS for home-lab overflow — off-site backups, public endpoints, CGNAT escape. Real tradeoffs, honest picks per scenario.

Your gigabit link drops to 200 Mbps and you don't know why. iperf3 measures throughput honestly, nload visualizes traffic — together they find the bottleneck fast.

Stop staring at a Plex library that looks like a clearance bin. Kometa (formerly Plex Meta Manager) automates collections, posters, overlays, and bulk ratings.

Dropbox got expensive and your data left the building. Syncthing, Resilio Sync, and Seafile compared — pick the one that fits your threat model.

Disks fail. SMART tells you when. Here's how smartctl and smartd actually predict failure, and the attributes that matter (most don't).

Stop guessing whose request is clogging your 4K library. Jellyseerr tags + Sonarr/Radarr + Maintainerr = real per-user quota control that actually holds up.

Zero-trust access for SSH, k8s, and databases — HashiCorp Boundary vs Teleport compared on identity, session recording, and self-host fit.

Sonarr handles TV. Radarr handles movies. But who handles comics and adult content? Meet Mylar3 and Whisparr — the *arr apps nobody talks about, until now.

Dify is an open-source LLM-app builder you can self-host. Visual workflow editor, RAG, agents, tool use — without writing 500 lines of LangChain glue.

Appwrite is an open-source Firebase alternative you can self-host — databases, auth, storage, and functions without vendor lock-in.