Gitea Actions vs Woodpecker CI
Gitea Actions vs Woodpecker CI: two solid self-hosted CI options, one clear winner for your setup. Compare syntax, runners, footprint, and secrets handling.
Tag: self-hosting
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Adding NOT NULL on a Big Table Without Downtime
How to safely add a NOT NULL column with a live backfill on a 200M-row Postgres table without locking your users out or scheduling any maintenance downtime.
Karakeep: Self-Hosted Bookmarks With AI Tagging
Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is a self-hosted Pocket alternative with AI auto-tagging, full-text search, and Docker Compose deploy in under 10 minutes.
Firefly III vs Actual vs Fava (Beancount)
Firefly III is full-featured. Actual Budget is YNAB-style. Fava+Beancount is plain-text accounting. Here's how to pick self-hosted personal finance.
Postgres HA: Patroni + etcd + HAProxy
Build a real Postgres 17 HA cluster with Patroni 4.x, etcd 3.5, and HAProxy — fully automatic failover, tested switchover procedure, zero manual babysitting.
Dragonfly vs Redis: Single-Binary Performance
DragonflyDB vs Redis 7.4 and Valkey 8.x: architecture deep dive, real performance benchmarks, honest gotchas, and when to swap your cache layer for a dragon.
ntfy vs Gotify vs Apprise: Push Stacks
ntfy is curl-friendly push with iOS. Gotify is self-hosted with web UI. Apprise abstracts 70+ providers. Here's how to wire homelab notifications.
Syncthing Through Untrusted VPS Relays
Sync files between machines that are never online together using Syncthing's untrusted encrypted devices, dual-VPS failover, and a Tailscale-only network path.
SnapRAID: Parity Without Real-Time RAID
Your media library doesn't write often enough to justify mdadm or ZFS overhead. SnapRAID calculates parity on a schedule, mixes drive sizes, and pairs with MergerFS for a unified pool. Here's the setup.
KeyDB: A Redis Fork With Multi-Threading
KeyDB forked Redis and shipped multi-threaded I/O and active-active replication years before Redis itself did. Here is whether it is still worth using today.
Mastodon vs Misskey vs Pleroma 2026
Three ActivityPub servers for your own fediverse instance. Mastodon polished, Misskey feature-rich, Pleroma/Akkoma lightweight. Here's how to pick.
Self-Hosted Email Gateways in 2026
Self-hosted secure email gateways compared: Proxmox Mail Gateway vs Hermes SEG vs DIY Rspamd, plus which classic appliances are now abandonware.