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Right now, the self-hosting chatter centers on practical home infrastructure upgrades—turning modest hardware into servers and automating basics like restarts after power loss. Alongside that, there’s interest in ready-made self-hosted app projects, including self-hosted wiki and mail alternatives, plus a self-hosted fitness app that replaces MyFitnessPal.

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Key Takeaway Self-hosting trends are shifting from generic setups toward concrete, purpose-built services (wiki/mail/fitness) running on homelab hardware with reliability features like power-outage recovery.
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Self-hosting trends are shifting from generic setups toward concrete, purpose-built services (wiki/mail/fitness) running on homelab hardware with reliability features like power-outage recovery.

Right now, the self-hosting chatter centers on practical home infrastructure upgrades—turning modest hardware into servers and automating basics like restarts after power loss. Alongside that, there’s interest in ready-made self-hosted app projects, including self-hosted wiki and mail alternatives, plus a self-hosted fitness app that replaces MyFitnessPal.

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GitHub · 6h ago
Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail without the mail server

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Mail project Posthorn is described as a self-hosted mail solution without the mail server
Power resilience unRAID thread focuses on enabling a home server to restart after a power outage

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  • Watch r/unRAID for recurring guides on power-loss restart configurations for homelab reliability. r/unRAID
  • Follow HN discussions for Posthorn progress as a self-hosted mail approach without running a full mail server. HN

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androidauthority.com

I manage my entire home lab using Telegram and Discord and it's the coolest thing ever

I turned Telegram into a homelab control center, and it's made managing my Docker containers so much easier.

24h ago Dhruv Bhutani
xda-developers.com

I manage my ESP32 boards with this free self-hosted tool

And no, it's not ESPHome

5d ago Ayush Pande

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Hacker News · u/craigmccaskill · 

Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail without the mail server

Introducing Posthorn, a self hosted email gateway. One docker container (or Go binary) between every self hosted app on your VPS and your transactional email provider. Set up Posthorn once, point your apps to it, done.I …

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r/homelab · u/shocomir · 

Gambled and won: 2x4TB for $10.98!

…and all the data still on them, of course. Erase your hard drives, people!
Hacker News · u/braincoder · 

FlowLink: MCP proxy blocking destructive AI agent commands

We built FlowLink because AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) keep executing destructive commands on production servers with no guardrails.The recent "AI agent deleted production database" post (860 pts here) is exa…

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r/homelab · u/gtwizzy8 · 

Genuine question. How are the Australians in this sub affording storage space?

Look I don't know what it's like for the rest of you in other parts of the world. But we are getting close to 7¢ a Gig for most HDD space that's at or above like 8tb. And SSD space is running at about 22¢ a GB. Is this t…
Hacker News · u/kitlop · 

Reviving older hardware into a minimally viable homelab

Reviving older hardware into a minimally viable homelab

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