My entire home lab cost less than a new GPU, and it does more for me too
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The NAS feature that changed my home setup wasn't RAID, snapshots, or file sharing
1w agoReplacing paid productivity apps with a self-hosted setup helped me save money, but I had to make some compromises
1w agoAfter self-hosting LLMs for a year, I realized that models are not the real bottleneck
1w agoThese 5 small tweaks made my self-hosted LLM setup way more productive
1w agoYour NAS doesn't need to be all-SSD, and TrueNAS proved it to me
…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 thought a VPS would replace my home server, but the real costs caught me off guard
…I have a straightforward homelab setup. I am using an old PC as a bare-metal Debian server . I have a fairly big list of self-hosted services for all day-to…
The NAS feature I use every day isn't storage, it's Docker
…But the effort proved to be worth it, as I finally got more use out of my favorite self-hosted services. Self-hosting is my favorite NAS use case It has helped…
A dashboard replaced my scattered notes, and now my home lab actually feels organized
…like some kind of self-hosted locker combination. The easier something is to reach, the less it feels like a chore. That was the part of my setup that annoyed me more…
I moved my entire Kindle library to a self hosted server and escaped the Amazon walled garden for good
I ditched Kindle's walled garden for a self-hosted library, and the control is worth every minute of setup
Most Pi-hole setups leak your browsing to your ISP — here's the encryption layer that stops it
…This led me to a self-hosted solution, dnscrypt-proxy , instead of hunting for another cloud-based alternative. The setup was easy enough. I deployed it alongside Pi-hole via Portainer on…
I run Hyper-V instead of VirtualBox on Windows 11, and it's faster and free
…dedicated home lab, this setup is really fun to experiment with. I’ve even got dedicated Windows Server 2025 and Hyper-V 2019 VMs on my Proxmox host (with nested virtualization enabled…
7 things I stopped paying for after getting a NAS
…full-featured productivity setup for free. Take control of your NAS You’ve already taken a big step toward digital self-sustenance by ditching subscriptions and self-hosting alternatives that often work…
I switched from streaming to self-hosting my media — it cost more than I expected
…Related How I replaced all these streaming services with one self-hosted app Cutting the online streaming cord with this one free self-hosted app.