Tag: self-hosting

Make Plex actually fast: enable hardware transcoding, fix remote access without relay, tune Docker env vars, and decide if Jellyfin is calling your name.

Portainer, Dockge, and Dockhand compared side by side. Portainer handles fleets, Dockge nails single-host Compose, Dockhand gives you multi-host and SSO free.

Stakater Reloader watches ConfigMaps and Secrets and triggers rolling restarts automatically, so your pods always run current config, no kubectl rollout.

Restic forget, prune, and check: right order, real retention flags, cron automation, and why --read-data on a large repo will ruin your whole weekend.

Self-hosted email with Mailcow or Stalwart means daily SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and IP blacklist battles. Here's the honest case against running your own mail server.

Your reverse proxy only has the leaf cert, not the intermediate. Here's why that kills half your connections.

TLS tunneling for legacy plaintext services, stunnel's X.509 cert model vs spiped's pre-shared key simplicity, and when each one actually wins.

Zabbix is enterprise-grade monitoring that you can self-host, agents, templates, triggers, and dashboards for your entire home lab.

Run a WireGuard VPN server in Docker with the linuxserver image, Compose setup, peer config generation, and road warrior access to your home network.

Run WordPress on PHP-FPM with Caddy as the web server, all in Docker Compose with automatic HTTPS and proper PHP config.

Two ways to route LLM traffic across providers, OpenRouter as a hosted gateway, LiteLLM as a self-hosted proxy. Which one fits your home lab in 2026?

Google Photos went paid and the alternatives matured fast. Immich, PhotoPrism, and Ente: which self-hosted photo library actually fits your life in 2026?