Tag: self-hosting

Postgres replication at home: when you need read replicas, streaming vs logical replication explained, slot management, conflict handling.

Fork futures: MariaDB's agile innovation vs MySQL's Oracle stewardship. Storage engines, JSON, replication, and why your choice matters now.

Why SQLite is the secret weapon for self-hosted apps. WAL mode, concurrency limits, and when to actually leave it behind for Postgres.

Redis went source-available, then back to AGPL. When to migrate to Valkey or KeyDB, persistence and clustering options, and what matters for self-hosters.

Docker volumes, version pinning, health checks, and tuning. A production-ready Postgres Compose template with init scripts and backup strategy.

Garrul's 2026-05-25 roadmap promised moderation tools, a faster widget, and admin polish. 89 days and 53 releases later, here is the honest scorecard.

Head-to-head comparison of Unmanic and Tdarr transcode pipelines, config style, plugins, workers, GPU support, and when to pick each.

Batch transcode h264 to h265 or AV1 with Tdarr. GPU/CPU strategies, plugin flows, Docker Compose setup, and storage savings math for your media server.

HyperDX (ClickHouse, session replay) vs OpenObserve (Rust, cheap object storage), two modern self-hosted observability platforms compared for homelabbers.

Home Assistant disaster recovery: off-site backups, secrets handling, Z2M coordinator, restore drills that catch missing pieces.

Calibre, Calibre-Web, and Kavita compared for a self-hosted ebook library. Format support, reading experience, and which one belongs on your NAS.

Navidrome vs Funkwhale for self-hosted music streaming. Subsonic API support, mobile clients, federation, and which one fits a homelab in 2026.