A used office PC is the best media center upgrade I've made in years
…in a more modular way, especially if you’re planning to self-host more services. Another advantage is that this setup doesn’t lock you into a single use case. You can…
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The NAS feature that changed my home setup wasn't RAID, snapshots, or file sharing
4d agoReplacing paid productivity apps with a self-hosted setup helped me save money, but I had to make some compromises
4d agoAfter self-hosting LLMs for a year, I realized that models are not the real bottleneck
6d agoThese 5 small tweaks made my self-hosted LLM setup way more productive
6d agoDocker rootless mode is a one-line fix most guides skip over
Your Docker setup is probably sharing root access with your host machine, and that's far from ideal for a self-hosting server
My Raspberry Pi 4 still has a job in my homelab, and it isn't Home Assistant
…Related 5 "set it and forget it" self-hosted services that will improve your life Transform your digital life with these low-maintenance, high-impact self-hosted solutions Pi-hole manages DNS…
Your NAS is wasted if it is just a dumb storage box — you can do a lot more with it
…You not only make your setup more efficient, secure, and capable, but also ensure your NAS pays for itself a lot faster. You can self-host tons of useful services and even…
Why I ditched Cloudflare Tunnels for Tailscale and Caddy on my homelab
…I wanted to access my self-hosted services, dashboards , and home server remotely. Tailscale assigns every device a private IP and a MagicDNS hostname within your tailnet. Setting up Tailscale on my…
My homelab monitoring broke silently until I switched from SMS to ntfy in an afternoon
…It instantly clicked as an obvious replacement for my current SMS setup, since it was lightweight and not dependent on any third-party APIs. Everything that was Docker deployable and self-hostable…
My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
…These nice-to-have tools become an essential part that complements the self-hosted setup. The implementation is also straightforward. I deployed them on Docker Compose and accessed them via Cloudflare tunnels…
This MCP Server turned my NAS into a self-hosted AI assistant, and it changed how I work
…Sign in to your XDA account Besides its centralized storage and backup provisions, my Network-Attached Storage is an important part of my self-hosted setup. I’ve mapped a bunch of…
10 quality-of-life services I self-host on my home lab
…Combine all three, and you’ve got an imposing setup that can help you create, store, and manage your notes. Firefly III Self-hosting a Firefly III instance is a great way…
This self-hosted presentation tool does everything Canva does, and it costs nothing
…It’s self-hosted, AI-powered, and honestly more capable than I expected for something I spun up in Docker on a whim. It’s not the most obvious Canva replacement, but…