Tag: self-hosting

Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: Block Ads for Your Whole Network

Browser ad blockers miss half the ads. DNS blocking kills them everywhere — TV, phone, game console, everything. Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: here's which one to run.

Ollama Model Management: Beyond ollama run

You know how to pull and run a model. Now learn Modelfiles, GPU layer tuning, the REST API, running multiple models without OOM-killing your server, and actually useful system prompts.

Restic vs Borg vs Kopia: Backups That Actually Deduplicate

rsync is not a backup. Restic, Borg, and Kopia do deduplication, encryption, and incremental snapshots properly. Here's which one fits your home lab and why.

Suricata vs Snort: Network Intrusion Detection That Actually Works

Snort invented network intrusion detection. Suricata multi-threaded its way past it. Here's how to set up real IDS/IPS on your home lab and actually understand what it's telling you.

Continue.dev vs Cody vs Tabby: AI Code Help Without the Cloud

GitHub Copilot is great until you read the ToS. Continue.dev, Cody, and Tabby bring AI code assistance to your editor with local or self-hosted models — no code leaves your machine.

Cockpit vs Webmin: Web Admin Panels That Don't Make You Cry

Cockpit is the modern systemd-native Linux admin panel. Webmin is the veteran that configures everything. Here's which one should be on your servers — and which shouldn't.

Cloudflare Tunnels: The Zero-Port-Forward Guide to Exposing Your Services

No port forwarding, no DDNS drama. Cloudflare Tunnels advanced config: multiple services, Access policies, origin TLS, and what Cloudflare can actually see.

Prometheus + Grafana: Monitoring That Doesn't Lie to You

Prometheus scrapes metrics. Grafana makes them pretty. Alertmanager wakes you up at 2 AM. Here's how to wire all three together into a monitoring stack that actually works.

Fail2ban vs CrowdSec: Blocking the Bots Actually Smartly

Fail2ban bans IPs that attack you. CrowdSec bans them before they attack you, using community threat intelligence. Here's how to set up both and why you might want both.

Tailscale Deep Dive: Mesh Networking That Actually Works

Tailscale takes WireGuard's speed and wraps it in a control plane that handles key exchange, routing, and ACLs automatically. Here's everything beyond 'tailscale up'.

Qdrant vs Weaviate vs Chroma: Vector DB Showdown

Every RAG tutorial says 'just use Chroma.' Then you hit production. Here's what Qdrant, Weaviate, and ChromaDB actually offer and when each one earns its place.

Gitea vs Forgejo vs GitLab CE: Self-Hosted Git

GitLab CE does everything and wants all your RAM. Gitea and Forgejo run on a Raspberry Pi. Here's which self-hosted git platform actually fits your setup.