The best home server OS in 2026 isn't trying to be a NAS at all
…Even better, why limit yourself to one operating system at all, when Proxmox exists? It's by far my favorite operating system for self-hosting, and my home server wouldn't be…
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I tried 3 self-hosted read-it-later apps for a month — only one actually got me to read what I saved
6d agoSelf-hosted app abandonment is speeding up, and it's reaching projects people trust
6d agoI tried replacing OneDrive with self-hosted storage, and it didn't work out
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1w agoI finally ditched Ubuntu Server after five years, and realized why Fedora's release cycle actually wins for production
…For five years straight, it ran most of the services in my home lab, which included a handful of self-hosted apps, containers, and VMs. I've always found Ubuntu's LTS…
I set up this open-source tool to see what my network was doing, and I found things I didn't expect
…He writes for XDA-Developers, where he focuses on topics like productivity, networking, self-hosting, and more. Over the years, his work has also appeared in leading publications such as Android Police…
I made Jellyfin remote streaming reliable without opening everything to the internet
…The second option is to use Pangolin on a VPS as a self-hosted tunnel when Tailscale's performance suffers due to CGNAT from the home ISP or cellular provider. My Jellyfin…
I finally organized my Docker Compose files and saved myself hours of time
…He writes for XDA-Developers, where he focuses on topics like productivity, networking, self-hosting, and more. Over the years, his work has also appeared in leading publications such as Android Police…
Tailscale is the only home lab change I made this year that I actually noticed
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Most home servers are wildly overbuilt, and the N100 proved it to me
…If you run several full virtual machines, host game servers, transcode multiple high-bitrate streams in software, or do local development builds on your server, the N100 can start to feel boxed…
I turned my old phone into a security camera that saves to my home server for free
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Running OpenClaw in Proxmox taught me that elegance doesn't always beat reliability
…the software side clearly, including supported operating systems and the current Node requirement, but they don’t publish a neat official CPU/RAM/storage minimum the way some self-hosted projects do…
Synology felt like an appliance until I built a custom NAS with TrueNAS and realized what I was missing
…software. The NAS became an exception where it was almost entirely proprietary. Our data needs continued to grow, and I eventually needed to offload many of the services that were previously hosted…