Tag: self-hosting

SigNoz gives you logs, metrics, and traces in one ClickHouse-backed app. The Grafana LGTM stack gives you four. Here's how to pick the right one.

Audiobookshelf vs Booksonic: which self-hosted audiobook server wins? ABS takes it for most homelabbers. Here's why, and when Booksonic still makes sense.

Browser-Use and Skyvern let LLMs drive real browsers via natural language goals. Here's what they can actually do, where they break, and when Playwright is still the right call.

Ditch Alexa and Google Home. Build a fully local voice assistant with Whisper STT, Piper TTS, and Home Assistant using the Wyoming protocol.

Sandstorm gives every app instance its own capability-gated sandbox. Different threat model than a Compose stack, here's what that actually means.

Llamafile bundles llama.cpp + Cosmopolitan libc into one portable binary that runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and BSD with zero install.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 hits 50 on the independent intelligence index at $0.14/$0.28 per million tokens. Same weights as the preview, redone post-training.

Stream your own gaming PC with Sunshine + Moonlight. Low-latency NVIDIA NVENC, AMD VAAPI, Intel QSV, Tailscale remote play, and no monthly bill.

Replace Perplexity with SearXNG + a local LLM for private, cited web search. Full Perplexica/Morphic deploy walkthrough, Ollama, latency tradeoffs.

NUT (Network UPS Tools) monitors APC, CyberPower, and Eaton UPSes and triggers graceful shutdowns before your home lab eats a corrupt ZFS pool.

Firefox Sync still works self-hosted in 2026, but the setup is more involved than it looks. Here's the real story, plus whether it's actually worth it.

Memos is a lightweight self-hosted microblog and scratchpad. One Compose container, SQLite, Markdown hashtags, and zero Twitter brain rot.