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Sep 29

Best Spliit Alternatives for Self-Hosting: When Splitwise, a Spreadsheet or a Plain-Text Ledger Wins

#selfhosted #homelab #opensource

14 min read

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Sep 26

How to Back Up Self-Hosted Spliit: PostgreSQL Dumps, S3 Receipts and a Docker Restore That Loses Nothing

#selfhosted #docker #postgres #privacy

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17 min read

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Sep 24

RClone vs Dropbox and Google Drive Sync: Does Client-Side Crypt Give You Private Cloud Storage?

#selfhosted #privacy #opensource

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15 min read

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Sep 22

FileBrowser Permissions Explained: How Far Can One Compromised Account Actually Go?

#filebrowser #selfhosted #security #privacy

17 min read

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Sep 19

How Much of a 900-Recipe Paprika Library Actually Survives the Import into Mealie, and How to Repair the Rest

#mealie #selfhosted #homelab #python

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12 min read

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Sep 17

Self-Hosted WordPress vs WordPress.com Business vs WP Engine and Kinsta: The Real 3-Year Cost for a Two-Person Startup

#wordpress #selfhosted #startup #hosting

19 min read

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Sep 15

Netdata Alerts in Week One: Which to Keep, Tune or Silence, and How to Route Them to Slack, Discord and ntfy

#netdata #alerting #sre #devops

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12 min read

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Sep 12

rclone mount vs rclone bisync after Dropbox: the real latency, RAM and conflict numbers

#rclone #selfhosted #devops

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15 min read

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Sep 10

Should Ntfy Run on the Home Server It Is Meant to Warn You About? Where Alerts Fail and How to Avoid It

#ntfy #selfhosting #homelab #monitoring

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13 min read

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Sep 8

Docmost Content In and Out: What Import, Storage and Handover Really Cost Over Three Years

#docmost #selfhosted #postgres #sysadmin

13 min read

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Sep 5

Plex Server Sizing: Quick Sync, Discrete GPU or Raw CPU for 3, 5 and 10 Simultaneous Transcodes

#plex #selfhosted #homelab #performance

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14 min read

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Sep 3

Migrating to Hubs Community Edition: what survives the move, and what you rebuild by hand

#webxr #selfhosted #devops

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12 min read

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Sep 1

Ollama Has No API Authentication: How To Properly Gate Port 11434

#ollama #security #selfhosted #llm

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14 min read

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Aug 29

Immich Sizing Guide: What a 20,000 Photo Google Takeout Import Really Costs in Disk, RAM and Hours

#immich #selfhosted #docker #photography

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15 min read

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Aug 27

ConvertX Hardware Requirements: How Much CPU, RAM and Disk Before Conversions Start Failing

#selfhosted #docker #ffmpeg #webdev

13 min read

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Aug 25

Why Your Self-Hosted Stirling-PDF Container OOMs, Hangs or Returns a Broken PDF: 15 Anti-Patterns and Their Fixes

#selfhosted #docker #pdf

14 min read

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Aug 22

Hubs Community Edition backup and restore: what npm run backup captures, what it misses, and how long recovery takes

#hubs #selfhosting #devops #backup

15 min read

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Aug 20

Duplicati Block Size, Remote Volume Size and Retention: How to Choose Them for Your Data Shape

#duplicati #backup #storage #homelab

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13 min read

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Aug 18

How Much Transcoding Headroom Does a Plex Server Really Need? Quick Sync vs NVENC vs CPU for 4K HDR

#plex #selfhosted #hardware #devops

13 min read

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Aug 15

Private Docusaurus: What Actually Gates the Site, and What Still Leaks Through sitemap.xml, Search and Source Maps

#docusaurus #selfhosted #security #react

17 min read

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Aug 13

Jellyfin Buffering With 3 or 4 Family Streams: The Setup Mistakes That Cause It, and How to Fix Each One

#jellyfin #selfhosted #homelab #docker

13 min read

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Aug 11

Why Vaultwarden Feels Slow: KDF, SQLite vs MySQL vs PostgreSQL, Storage, WebSockets and Your Reverse Proxy

#vaultwarden #sqlite #selfhosted #docker

12 min read

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Aug 8

Notion to Docmost: what survives the export, and what the databases-to-pages downgrade really costs you

#docmost #selfhosted #notion #homelab

14 min read

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Aug 7

How Many People Fit in a Self-Hosted Hubs Room? Dialog SFU Bandwidth and CPU Costs Explained

#hubs #webrtc #selfhosted #performance

13 min read

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Aug 7

Duplicati on Backblaze B2 vs Backblaze Personal Backup: where the yearly cost actually crosses over

#duplicati #backup #selfhosted #backblaze

12 min read

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Aug 7

OpenClaw vs Subscription AI Assistants: Real Token Costs, Capability Gaps and the Usage Level Where Self-Hosting Wins

#openclaw #selfhosted #ai #costs

15 min read

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Aug 7

When DokuWiki Is the Wrong Replacement for Notion or Confluence Cloud: The Gaps No Plugin Closes

#dokuwiki #selfhosted #wiki #php

11 min read

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Aug 7

Netdata Cloud vs a Self Hosted Parent Node: The Real Three Year Cost for a Home Server

#netdata #monitoring #observability #devops

12 min read

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Aug 7

Navidrome duplicate albums, split discs and missing art: the tagging and mount anti-patterns that break a 50k library

#navidrome #selfhosted #music #docker

12 min read

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Aug 7

WordPress Sitewide Outages: Which Misconfigurations Actually Cause Them, Ranked by Frequency and Recovery Time

#wordpress #selfhosting #php #mysql

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14 min read

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Aug 7

What a Malicious Ollama Model Can Actually Do to Your Host, and How to Sandbox /api/pull

#ollama #security #llm #docker

13 min read

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Aug 6

When You Should Not Run Kubernetes, and What a Single Docker Compose Host Really Costs You

#kubernetes #docker #devops

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3 min read

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Aug 6

Immich vs Google Photos: Why Self-Hosting Your Photo Library Wins in 2026

#selfhosted #immich #privacy #photography

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3 min read

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Best Spliit Alternatives for Self-Hosting: When Splitwise, a Spreadsheet or a Plain-Text Ledger Wins

How to Back Up Self-Hosted Spliit: PostgreSQL Dumps, S3 Receipts and a Docker Restore That Loses Nothing

RClone vs Dropbox and Google Drive Sync: Does Client-Side Crypt Give You Private Cloud Storage?

FileBrowser Permissions Explained: How Far Can One Compromised Account Actually Go?

How Much of a 900-Recipe Paprika Library Actually Survives the Import into Mealie, and How to Repair the Rest

Self-Hosted WordPress vs WordPress.com Business vs WP Engine and Kinsta: The Real 3-Year Cost for a Two-Person Startup

Netdata Alerts in Week One: Which to Keep, Tune or Silence, and How to Route Them to Slack, Discord and ntfy

rclone mount vs rclone bisync after Dropbox: the real latency, RAM and conflict numbers

Should Ntfy Run on the Home Server It Is Meant to Warn You About? Where Alerts Fail and How to Avoid It

Docmost Content In and Out: What Import, Storage and Handover Really Cost Over Three Years

Plex Server Sizing: Quick Sync, Discrete GPU or Raw CPU for 3, 5 and 10 Simultaneous Transcodes

Migrating to Hubs Community Edition: what survives the move, and what you rebuild by hand

Ollama Has No API Authentication: How To Properly Gate Port 11434

Immich Sizing Guide: What a 20,000 Photo Google Takeout Import Really Costs in Disk, RAM and Hours

ConvertX Hardware Requirements: How Much CPU, RAM and Disk Before Conversions Start Failing

Why Your Self-Hosted Stirling-PDF Container OOMs, Hangs or Returns a Broken PDF: 15 Anti-Patterns and Their Fixes

Hubs Community Edition backup and restore: what npm run backup captures, what it misses, and how long recovery takes

Duplicati Block Size, Remote Volume Size and Retention: How to Choose Them for Your Data Shape

How Much Transcoding Headroom Does a Plex Server Really Need? Quick Sync vs NVENC vs CPU for 4K HDR

Private Docusaurus: What Actually Gates the Site, and What Still Leaks Through sitemap.xml, Search and Source Maps

Jellyfin Buffering With 3 or 4 Family Streams: The Setup Mistakes That Cause It, and How to Fix Each One

Why Vaultwarden Feels Slow: KDF, SQLite vs MySQL vs PostgreSQL, Storage, WebSockets and Your Reverse Proxy

Notion to Docmost: what survives the export, and what the databases-to-pages downgrade really costs you

How Many People Fit in a Self-Hosted Hubs Room? Dialog SFU Bandwidth and CPU Costs Explained

Duplicati on Backblaze B2 vs Backblaze Personal Backup: where the yearly cost actually crosses over

OpenClaw vs Subscription AI Assistants: Real Token Costs, Capability Gaps and the Usage Level Where Self-Hosting Wins

When DokuWiki Is the Wrong Replacement for Notion or Confluence Cloud: The Gaps No Plugin Closes

Netdata Cloud vs a Self Hosted Parent Node: The Real Three Year Cost for a Home Server

Navidrome duplicate albums, split discs and missing art: the tagging and mount anti-patterns that break a 50k library

WordPress Sitewide Outages: Which Misconfigurations Actually Cause Them, Ranked by Frequency and Recovery Time

What a Malicious Ollama Model Can Actually Do to Your Host, and How to Sandbox /api/pull

When You Should Not Run Kubernetes, and What a Single Docker Compose Host Really Costs You

Immich vs Google Photos: Why Self-Hosting Your Photo Library Wins in 2026