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Backup Automation with Restic: Set It and Forget It
Restic is a fast, encrypted backup tool. Deduplicated, incremental backups to any storage — S3, B2, local, SFTP.
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Self-Hosting Outline: The Best Notion Alternative
Outline is a beautiful, fast knowledge base. Markdown editing, real-time collaboration, and API-first design — all self-hosted.
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Self-Hosting Grafana: Beautiful Dashboards for Any Data
Grafana turns time-series data into beautiful, actionable dashboards. Monitor infrastructure, applications, and business metrics.
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Podman vs Docker: What's the Difference?
Podman is a daemonless, rootless container engine. It's Docker-compatible but more secure by default. Here's what's different.
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HTTPS Everywhere: How Let's Encrypt Changed Self-Hosting
Before Let's Encrypt, SSL certificates cost $50-200/year. Now HTTPS is free and automatic. Here's how it works.
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Self-Hosting Plausible Analytics: Privacy-First Website Tracking
Plausible is a lightweight, privacy-friendly analytics tool. No cookies, no consent banners, under 1 KB script size.
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Understanding Containerization: A Beginner's Guide
Containers changed how we deploy software. Understand what containers are, why they matter, and how they work — no jargon.
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Self-Hosting Ghost: The Best Blogging Platform
Ghost is a modern publishing platform. Beautiful writing experience, built-in newsletters, memberships, and SEO. All self-hostable.
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Self-Hosting Nextcloud: Replace Google Drive, Calendar, and Contacts
Nextcloud is the Swiss Army knife of self-hosting. File sync, calendar, contacts, office docs, and 200+ apps in one platform.
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Docker Compose Best Practices for Self-Hosting
Docker Compose is the backbone of self-hosted stacks. These best practices keep your services reliable, secure, and maintainable.
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Linux Server Hardening Checklist for Self-Hosters
A fresh Linux server is wide open. This checklist covers every hardening step from SSH keys to automatic updates.
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Self-Hosting Vaultwarden: Your Own Password Manager
Vaultwarden is a lightweight Bitwarden-compatible server. All the Bitwarden features, self-hosted, using a fraction of the resources.
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Container Volumes: Persistent Storage for Docker and Podman
Containers are ephemeral — when they're removed, data is lost. Volumes solve this by persisting data outside the container lifecycle.
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Self-Hosting Uptime Kuma: Monitor Everything
Uptime Kuma is a beautiful, self-hosted monitoring tool. Track uptime, response times, and get alerts when things go down.
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Caddy vs Nginx vs Traefik: Reverse Proxy Comparison
Your reverse proxy is the front door to all your self-hosted apps. Compare Caddy, Nginx, and Traefik to choose the right one.
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Understanding DNS for Self-Hosting: A Complete Guide
DNS turns domain names into IP addresses. Understanding DNS is essential for self-hosting — misconfigured DNS means nobody can reach your apps.
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Self-Hosting Gitea: Your Own GitHub
Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service. Repositories, pull requests, issues, CI/CD — everything GitHub offers, on your own server.
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Running Immich: The Self-Hosted Google Photos Replacement
Immich is a high-performance self-hosted photo and video backup solution. Machine learning face detection, timeline view, and mobile apps.
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Self-Hosting Paperless-ngx: Go Paperless in a Weekend
Paperless-ngx scans, OCRs, and organizes all your documents. Replace filing cabinets and cloud storage with a self-hosted document management system.
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Self-Hosting Wakapi: Developer Time Tracking
Wakapi tracks your coding activity automatically. Compatible with WakaTime, it shows how much time you spend in each language, project, and editor.