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The current self-hosting trend focuses on building and securing personal home servers/homelabs, including storage and remote-access decisions, and on running self-hosted alternatives for specific apps (e.g., a UniFi monitoring stack or a Google Maps POI saver). Many posts emphasize practical setup choices and troubleshooting rather than vendor products.

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Key Takeaway Plan self-hosted services around security and access control first, then choose hardware/storage options that match your reliability needs.
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Plan self-hosted services around security and access control first, then choose hardware/storage options that match your reliability needs.

The current self-hosting trend focuses on building and securing personal home servers/homelabs, including storage and remote-access decisions, and on running self-hosted alternatives for specific apps (e.g., a UniFi monitoring stack or a Google Maps POI saver). Many posts emphasize practical setup choices and troubleshooting rather than vendor products.

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Level1Techs Forum · 6h ago
Setting up a home server from repurposed secondary machine and need help understanding how I should do it

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Security focus A first home server discussion centers on what to know to stay secure.
Storage question People ask whether using an external HDD for a home server is OK.

What to Watch

  • Follow r/homelab and r/HomeServer for ongoing home-server hardening checklists and build-spec reviews. r/homelab
  • Watch r/HomeNetworking for updated guidance on securing a first home server. forum.level1techs.com

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My homelab monitoring broke silently until I switched from SMS to ntfy in an afternoon

The alerts finally caught up with the homelab.

8d ago Shekhar Vaidya
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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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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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Do any of you self host a family encyclopedia?

I saw this article a few weeks ago about someone building a wikipedia style encyclopedia for their family, and it got me really intrigued. are any of you already doing this, if so what's your experience like with it? wou…
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Plex's Lifetime Pass is (basically) dead. Here's how to switch to Jellyfin.

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r/homelab · u/ShiftingRage · 

It’s a start

First homelab! I made the frame out of aluminum extrusion with some inspiration from a post I seen somewhere on Reddit. I still have several pieces I’m waiting to arrive before I start setting up Proxmox and everything e…
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