Linux

A no-nonsense comparison of DIY home clouds, plus a few practical warnings from someone who’s bricked their setup at least twice.

FileBrowser is dead, and it’s time to move on. Here are real alternatives, with actual setup commands included.

Moodist v3.0 drops with new features, but is it worth upgrading? We break down the hype and compare it to other journaling tools.

Proxmox rules the home server scene, yet it flies under the radar for many IT pros. Why? Let’s dig into the disconnect.

From Chaos to Grafana: A brutally honest look at how my homelab dashboard grew from fun experiments to something actually useful.

NetBird 0.78 introduces a visual Draft Mode for network setup. It’s cool, but does it live up to the hype for self-hosters?

Has self-hosting become a rich person’s game? A breakdown of costs, workarounds, and opinions from the r/selfhosted community.

Rootprint lets you search logs stored on S3 in real time—no Elasticsearch, no Kafka, just a lightweight, open-source stack.

Sync-in 2.5 is out — and it’s packing some serious upgrades. Let’s unpack what’s new, what’s overkill, and what’s still missing.

From a simple Pi-hole install to a full-blown homelab rabbit hole — how one tinkerer’s love affair with self-hosting began.