Unbound vs Technitium vs BIND
Picking a recursive DNS resolver for your home lab, Unbound, Technitium, and BIND9 compared on speed, GUI, DNSSEC, and split-horizon.
Tag: self-hosting
All the articles with the tag "self-hosting".
HACS: When Custom Integrations Bite You
HACS custom integrations can brick your Home Assistant setup overnight. Here's how to use them safely, recover when they don't, and know when to skip them.
ntopng vs darkstat
ntopng vs darkstat: full DPI flow analysis vs a tiny always-on stats page. Pick the right tool for home-lab network visibility without losing your mind.
AnythingLLM as Knowledge Base
AnythingLLM is the closest thing to a real private NotebookLM you can self-host. Workspaces, RAG, agents, document chat, running locally on Ollama in 20 minutes.
Home Assistant Add-Ons vs Docker Containers
HAOS Add-Ons vs bare Docker Compose for Mosquitto, ESPHome, Frigate, when the Supervisor magic is genuinely worth it and when it just gets in your way.
Home Assistant Voice: Wyoming vs Rhasspy
Wyoming protocol vs Rhasspy for local Home Assistant voice, which offline stack actually works in 2026, hardware requirements, and when to choose each one.
Caddy vs Traefik
Caddyfile zen vs Traefik labels-everywhere, picking a reverse proxy for self-hosted services in 2026. Real configs, real gotchas.
Promtail to Alloy Migration: A Practical Diff
Promtail is deprecated. Here's how to migrate your scrape configs, pipeline stages, and Docker log setups to Grafana Alloy without losing your mind or data.
LibreNMS for SNMP-Heavy Home Networks
LibreNMS auto-discovers your switches, APs, and UPS over SNMP with zero MIB hunting. Here's how to deploy it and stop abusing Prometheus for this job.
SmokePing for Internet Connection Sanity
SmokePing turns your ISP no-issue-detected excuse into a documented lie. Set it up in Docker and get clear visual proof of latency spikes and packet loss.
Riemann: The Forgotten Event-Stream Monitor for Home Labs
Riemann processes events as streams, not time-series. Here is why that distinction matters and when Clojure-based stream alerting still beats Prometheus rules.
Glances vs Netdata: Two Free-Tier Monitors Compared
Glances vs Netdata: which free monitor wins for your home lab? We compare install effort, UI quality, alerting, and when to ditch both for Prometheus.