Tag: self-hosting

RAID 5 and 6 don't scale gracefully past 8 drives. RAID 50 and RAID 60 stripe across multiple parity sub-arrays so rebuilds only stress one group. Here's when nesting actually pays off.

Linkding is minimal bookmarks. Hoarder is AI-tagged content store. Wallabag is read-it-later. Here's how to pick the right self-hosted bookmark tool.

pgAdmin, Adminer, or CloudBeaver, three web UIs for your databases, zero overlap in who should use them. Pick the wrong one and you'll hate your life.

BorgBackup is great. Borgmatic makes you actually run it: config-driven schedules, hooks, healthchecks, and a backup system that pages you when it breaks.

Owncast is the Twitch-alike. PeerTube is federated VOD. nginx-rtmp is roll-your-own RTMP. Here's how to pick a self-hosted streaming platform.

Run PostgreSQL 18 on ZFS for atomic snapshots, lz4 compression, and silent corruption detection. Tuning guide, backup automation scripts, and the real pitfalls.

Kasm Workspaces streams disposable Linux desktops and apps to your browser. Threat model, real homelab uses, and how it compares to Guacamole.

Three self-hosted music servers, all Subsonic-compatible. Navidrome is polished, Airsonic feature-heavy, gonic minimal. Here's how to pick yours.

Stop melting your DB with Grafana queries. TimescaleDB continuous aggregates pre-roll your metrics so dashboards stay fast even at 90-day ranges without pain.

ClickHouse can store TB of logs on one node, query in seconds, and outscale Loki and Elasticsearch in raw cost. Here's how to wire it up with Vector and Grafana.

DuckDB runs SQL directly on CSV, Parquet, and JSON files with no server and no import step required. Here is why it belongs in every home lab data toolkit.

Kodi is the classic media center. Jellyfin's native players ride on the Jellyfin server. Here's which client to run on your HTPC and why.