Tag: self-hosting

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.

Piper vs Coqui TTS compared: speed, voice quality, Docker setup, and Home Assistant integration. Run offline neural TTS on your own hardware, no cloud fees.

Make Plex actually fast: enable hardware transcoding, fix remote access without relay, tune Docker env vars, and decide if Jellyfin is calling your name.

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.

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 in Docker with the linuxserver image — Compose setup, peer config generation, and road warrior access to your home network.