Outline: The Team Wiki That Needs SSO
Outline has no password login, so self-hosting it means pairing it with an OIDC provider. Here is a working Docker stack with Postgres, Redis, and Dex.
Tag: self-hosting
All the articles with the tag "self-hosting".
Jellyfin GPU Transcoding: Prove It Works
You ticked the hardware acceleration box and the CPU still sits at 100%. How to set up Intel QSV and NVIDIA NVENC in Docker, and how to prove the GPU works.
Cloud Gaming Latency: It's Not Just Ping
Ping is one stage of seven in a game stream's latency chain. Learn what else adds milliseconds, how to measure each stage, and which fixes pay off first.
Split-Horizon DNS for a Home Lab VPN
Make jellyfin.home.example.com resolve to a LAN IP at home and over WireGuard or Tailscale, and to your public IP elsewhere. Unbound and AdGuard Home configs.
Dify vs Open WebUI: Chat or App Builder?
Dify and Open WebUI both front your local LLMs, but they solve different problems. Compare footprint, RAG, auth, APIs and licenses, and see how to run both.
One PC, Many Players: Steam Headless
Run several Steam Headless v2 containers on one Linux box so a household can play at once, each seat streamed with Moonlight. Compose file, numbers, gotchas.
Agent Memory Without a Vector DB
Give a local LLM agent long-term memory with Markdown files or SQLite FTS5. Working code, token math, and the point where you finally need embeddings.
Uptime Kuma vs Gatus vs Cachet
Uptime Kuma, Gatus, and Cachet all make a status page, but only two of them check anything. Here is which one to run in a home lab, with Compose files for each.
What Actually Fills Your Loki Storage
Your Loki volume hit tens of GB and you don't know why. Find the noisy streams with logcli and LogQL, then trim them in Alloy and set per-stream retention.
Windmill vs Activepieces
Windmill runs your scripts, Activepieces wires your apps. Compose files, licenses, webhooks, and sandboxing compared so you can pick one for your homelab.
Sizing 7 Days to Die and Other RAM Hogs
Size RAM for a 7 Days to Die server and other hogs (Palworld, Valheim, modded Minecraft). Measure real use, cap it in Docker, and restart on a schedule.
Home Lab Threat Model: What's Exposed
Mass scanners find a new home lab IP within hours. Audit what the internet can reach, from UPnP to Docker ports to IPv6, then build a threat model that fits.