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People are focusing on building and maintaining personal self-hosted homelabs—using spare hardware, redesigning home server layouts, and adding security. A smaller thread centers on finding specific self-hosted apps (ticketing, recipes) and managing devices with a free self-hosted tool.

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Key Takeaway Self-hosting is increasingly about practical everyday setups—server redesign, app selection, and security hardening—rather than just experimenting.
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Self-hosting is increasingly about practical everyday setups—server redesign, app selection, and security hardening—rather than just experimenting.

People are focusing on building and maintaining personal self-hosted homelabs—using spare hardware, redesigning home server layouts, and adding security. A smaller thread centers on finding specific self-hosted apps (ticketing, recipes) and managing devices with a free self-hosted tool.

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XDA-Developers · 2h ago
I manage my ESP32 boards with this free self-hosted tool

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recipe server Discussion asks whether people use self-hosted recipe software like Mealie
security changes A post lists “5 Security Changes I Made to My Home Lab That Actually Matter”

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  • Follow r/HomeServer discussions for guidance on storage choices like using an external HDD. r/HomeServer

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  • Turned spare routers into a wireless extender setup, free home lab win r/HomeNetworking
  • I manage my ESP32 boards with this free self-hosted tool XDA-Developers
  • Been working on cleaning up the homelab r/homelab
  • It is never ending… Current Homelab vs Planned Rack Layout — Good Direction or Am I Overengineering This? r/homelab
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Your self-hosted apps won't work right until you fix this one DNS setting

Don't settle for workarounds, go straight to the fix

10d ago Joe Rice-Jones
igorslab.de

Homelab Mini: Uptime Kuma Dashboard - Installation und Konfiguration …

Heute bedienen wir ein wenig das Klischee, dass in jedem Homelab mehr Monitoring-Tools und Dashboards laufen, als eigentliche Dienste betrieben werden.

5d ago Tim Kutzner

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Hacker News · u/melson · 

GoMotz – a lightweight, self-hosted network monitoring tool for Raspberry Pi

I’ve been working on a side project called GoMotz, a self-hosted network monitoring system written in Go, designed to run on low-power devices like Raspberry Pi. https://github.com/mascarenhasmelson/gomotz

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r/selfhosted · u/InvestigatorSoft5764 · 

Plex's Lifetime Pass is (basically) dead. Here's how to switch to Jellyfin.

Plex's Lifetime Pass is (basically) dead. Here's how to switch to Jellyfin.
Hacker News · u/perber · 

Self-hosted wikis shouldn't need an ops team

Self-hosted wikis shouldn't need an ops team

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Hacker News · u/lvales · 

Improving my self-hosted actions runner setup

Improving my self-hosted actions runner setup

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r/homelab · u/SleepyBoiNick · 

Amazon sent me 5 extra surge protectors

Spent 70 dollars and they ended up sending me over 400 dollars worth of surge protectors. I was wondering why the damn box was so heavy🤣
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