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Across homelab and home-server communities, people are sharing practical builds and setup guides while increasingly focusing on self-hosted services (e.g., recipe servers) and tightening home-lab security. There’s also momentum around self-hosting infrastructure for open-source projects, exemplified by a new self-hosted GitLab offering without enterprise AI or GitHub SaaS limitations.

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Key Takeaway Self-hosting is shifting from just “running stuff at home” to building real services and improving security, including for open-source GitLab infrastructure.
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Self-hosting is shifting from just “running stuff at home” to building real services and improving security, including for open-source GitLab infrastructure.

Across homelab and home-server communities, people are sharing practical builds and setup guides while increasingly focusing on self-hosted services (e.g., recipe servers) and tightening home-lab security. There’s also momentum around self-hosting infrastructure for open-source projects, exemplified by a new self-hosted GitLab offering without enterprise AI or GitHub SaaS limitations.

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Top 1 signals · Self-hosting is shifting from just “running stuff at home”
Level1Techs Forum · 1d ago
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Briefing Findings · Self-hosting is shifting from just “running stuff at home”

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Infrastructure offering Free GitLab infrastructure for open source projects
Recurring topic Security changes for home lab

What to Watch

  • Watch r/homelab and r/HomeServer threads for new first-build guides and redesigns tied to self-hosted services. r/homelab
  • Follow home-lab security checklists from WunderTech for repeatable hardening steps. WunderTech

What Changed

  • My home server runs on 7 Delta Pro Ultras in the garage forum.level1techs.com
  • Best tools and softwares for new homelab setup r/homelab
  • Home Server/Lab Redesign forum.level1techs.com
  • Project Tick Launch: An Independent, Self-Hosted Umbrella Organization Offering Free GitLab Infrastructure for Open Source Projects (No Enterprise AI, No GitHub SaaS Limitations) r/linux
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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.

4d ago Tim Kutzner
xda-developers.com

My Raspberry Pi 4 still has a job in my homelab, and it isn't Home Assistant

Reassigned, and better for it.

11d ago Samir Makwana
xda-developers.com

My homelab needed a lightweight dashboard, so I had Claude and a local LLM race to build it

The results were identical. The journeys were not.

11d ago Shekhar Vaidya

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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🤣
r/selfhosted · u/NearbyYak7156 · 

(OPINION) Now's the Perfect Time To Move Away from Plex

(WRITTEN BY A HUMAN THAT LIKES BULLET POINTS) Most people here have probably heard about Plex hiking the lifetime pass to 750USD, effective July 1. If you're still on the subscription and considering buying the lifetime …
Hacker News · u/ChristopherArk · 

ArkDisk – Self-hosted Nextcloud as a service (don't hack too fast)

ArkDisk – Self-hosted Nextcloud as a service (don't hack too fast)

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