Tag: self-hosting

Stop guessing which container is eating your RAM. Set up cAdvisor + Prometheus to get real per-container CPU, memory, and network metrics in your homelab.

TeamViewer costs a fortune, AnyDesk wants a subscription, and Chrome Remote Desktop routes everything through Google. Here's how RustDesk and MeshCentral stack up as self-hosted alternatives, and which one fits your use case.

Grafana Agent hit EOL in November 2025. Here is how to migrate all your monitoring nodes to Alloy without losing your mind, your metrics, or your dashboards.

Replace five scattered agents with one OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline, metrics, logs, and traces unified with real config you can drop into a home server.

I looked at a lot of self-hosted comment systems. None of the ones I wanted ran on Cloudflare Workers. So I wrote one. Here's the story and the deploy.

Stop burning money on AWS egress fees. Here is how to build a real tiered backup strategy using Backblaze B2 plus rclone for your home lab setup in 2026.

Akismet's licensing terms are increasingly hostile to small sites. Here are 11 spam-protection options, hosted APIs, CAPTCHA widgets, and DIY honeypots, that actually work in 2026.

Authelia is a bouncer. Authentik is the whole security desk. Pick the right self-hosted SSO for your home lab, with working configs, gotchas, and a migration path.

Ceph on 3 nodes: real hardware requirements, honest performance tradeoffs, and exactly when distributed storage beats a plain NFS share for your home lab.

Cosmos, CasaOS, and Umbrel each try to make self-hosting one-click. Here's how they actually compare on UI, security, app catalogs, and the all-important escape hatch when you outgrow them.

Set up Snapper on Btrfs to auto-snapshot before every system update, roll back broken machines in minutes, and never lose a working root filesystem again.

Plex tripled the lifetime price to $749. Here's a decision tree plus a working Jellyfin migration plan: Docker, transcoding, clients, watch history.