Self Hosting
Docker, reverse proxies, homelabs and VPS ops — practical guides for running your own services without waking up at 3am.
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Self-hosted email is losing to Gmail's hard SMTP rejections. Self-hosted password managers are split down the middle. And self-hosted music is doing the opposite of what you'd expect.
Self-host OpenClaw from zero to production. Server provisioning, SSH lockdown, Docker, reverse proxy, Fail2ban, performance tuning, and full backup strategy in one guide.
Build a production-grade self-hosted AI agent from scratch using Docker Compose. Covers the full stack — Ollama, n8n, Flowise, Qdrant, SearXNG, Langfuse, and Redis.
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Self-hosted email in 2026 comes with more choices than ever. This guide compares Mailcow, Mailu, and Stalwart across security, performance, resource usage, scalability, administration, and deliverability to help you choose the right mail server for your needs.
Four tools solve four different problems that all get pitched as the same problem. Here's what each one does, where each one breaks, and the combination that covers a real homelab without paying an SSO tax you didn't see coming.
A growing list of open-core self-hosted projects, from Grafana to Planka, gate single sign-on behind an Enterprise tier. Here's which protocol actually gets paywalled, and what to check before you deploy.
Self-hosted email is losing to Gmail's hard SMTP rejections. Self-hosted password managers are split down the middle. And self-hosted music is doing the opposite of what you'd expect.
A nonprofit founded in Colorado eight months ago wants to hand every self-hoster a free domain and put "surveillance capitalism" in its mission statement. That&
Oracle halved its Always Free ARM allocation to 2 OCPU/12GB, enforced Aug 18, 2026. Here's the exact numbers, what's still ambiguous, and how to resize in time.
Codeberg's members voted to prohibit vibe-coded repos over hosting costs, not code quality. Here's the actual vote, the reasoning, and the self-hosting community's reaction.
Cloudflare open-sourced its internal AI workspace. A technical breakdown of Dynamic Workers, Gatekeepers, capability-based access, and what it takes to self-host it.
What actually fits on Oracle Cloud free tier after the June 2026 cut: Ghost, Vaultwarden, Syncthing, monitoring, and a small AI model, sized in real RAM.
There's a moment every Discord bot developer remembers, even if nobody makes a big deal of it. You run node index.js, switch over to Discord,
Building a local AI server is more than installing Ollama. This guide builds a full production AI stack with Open WebUI, LiteLLM, Qdrant, Traefik, and Langfuse — what each component does, why it's needed, and three complete Docker Compose configurations for beginners, power users, and small teams.
Self-host OpenClaw from zero to production. Server provisioning, SSH lockdown, Docker, reverse proxy, Fail2ban, performance tuning, and full backup strategy in one guide.
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