Tag: homelab

You've been compromised. Now what? A practical incident response playbook for self-hosters who didn't think they'd need one until right now.

A honeypot sits quietly on your network pretending to be valuable. Touch it and you've found an intruder. Deploy OpenCanary in Docker, dead simple.

You want to self-host your git. Noble. Responsible, even. But now you're staring down three options and a Reddit thread that's somehow both 4 years old and still being argued about. Gitea, Forgejo, GitLab CE, let's cut through the noise and figure out which one won't ruin your weekend.

Your app calls OpenAI, your side project calls Anthropic, your homelab whispers to Ollama, and your codebase looks like a crime scene. LiteLLM and vLLM are the dynamic duo that puts a single sane API in front of every model you'll ever run, local or cloud.

Wazuh gives you SIEM, HIDS, FIM, and threat detection in one stack. Here's how to deploy it in your home lab with Docker and actually use it.

DRAM prices are killing the hobbyist SBC market, but there are still great options. Here's what's worth buying in 2026 for a sub-$200 homelab setup.

LUKS encrypts your drives so a stolen server is just expensive recycling. Here's how to set it up, manage keys, and unlock headless boxes remotely.

Run Docker containers without root privileges, here's the security difference, the install steps, and the gotchas nobody tells you about.

Attackers love finding ways to go from www-data to root. Here's how they do it, and more importantly, how you harden your Linux boxes to stop them.

Upload an ISO to Proxmox three ways: the web UI, wget straight onto the node, or SCP. Which to use when the browser upload stalls, plus checksum verification.

Steam crossed 5% Linux usage in March 2026. Proton runs most Windows games without touching a config file. Here's the setup that makes Linux gaming not suck.

Google Drive, Gmail, Photos, Calendar, Maps, Analytics, all replaceable with self-hosted alternatives that don't report your life back to Mountain View.