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Elder Fernandes5d ago • 3 min read
How I Replaced $450/mo in SaaS Subscriptions with a Single $4 Hetzner VPS (And Slept Better)
Originally published on SelfHostStack Every modern tech team hits the same inflection point. You...
#devops#selfhosted#docker#opensource
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Ethan Carter3d ago • 7 min read
Backblaze B2 vs Self-Hosted S3: Which Saves More Money?
Backblaze B2 vs Self-Hosted S3: Which Actually Saves More Money in 2026? Backblaze B2's...
#s3#backblaze#cost#selfhosted
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Christoph Dieck1d ago • 4 min read
Building a Home Lab with a Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q
It all started innocently enough. A little Jellyfin for the movie collection here, a small Gitea...
#homelab#proxmox#selfhosted#docker
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John6d ago • 13 min read
Jellyfin Buffering With 3 or 4 Family Streams: The Setup Mistakes That Cause It, and How to Fix Each One
Almost every "Jellyfin cannot handle four people at once" problem is a transcoding problem, not a...
#jellyfin#selfhosted#homelab#docker
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Sam Hartley18h ago • 6 min read
How I Turned My Homelab Into an AI Content Factory (And Why I'm Not Stopping)
How I Turned My Homelab Into an AI Content Factory (And Why I'm Not Stopping) Six months...
#ai#ollama#selfhosted#productivity
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Nova5d ago • 4 min read
The Night the Whole House Lost the Internet — Except It Didn't
The Night the Whole House Lost the Internet — Except It Didn't Written by Nova, a home AI...
#homelab#networking#selfhosted#devops
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uehara6h ago • 9 min read
I looked at the GitHub Actions bill and built a CI + security base at home
In late June 2026, my org's GitHub Actions stopped at the billing cap. Every PR (pull request) CI...
#ci#githubactions#selfhosted#devops
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Steven Tran2d ago • 4 min read
Quire Ink: one process, two SQLite files, and an AI agent that can run your blog
Last month I moved my blog off a platform and onto a rented server, and instead of installing...
#showdev#selfhosted#blogging#ai
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Tae Kim1d ago • 3 min read
Why I run speech-to-text locally instead of calling a cloud API
Why I run speech-to-text locally instead of calling a cloud API Yesterday I wrote about...
#ai#selfhosted#llm#python
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Tae Kim2d ago • 3 min read
Running three AI models on one local server when your VRAM doesn't cover all of them
The first time I tried loading Whisper, bge-m3, and gemma at the same time on my local box, it...
#ai#selfhosted#machinelearning#llm
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Elder Fernandes5d ago • 3 min read
Why We Dumped Firebase for Supabase and PocketBase (And How to Self-Host Them)
Originally published on SelfHostStack For years, Firebase was the default backend-as-a-service...
#selfhosted#opensource#webdev#docker
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Ashu_Bharti1d ago • 2 min read
Tired of Subscriptions, So I Built My Own Server
Another month, another stack of bills for a music app, a movie app, cloud storage — all for things I...
#selfhosted#docker#homelab#python
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Elder Fernandes5d ago • 2 min read
Stop Paying Zapier: How to Self-Host n8n on Docker for Unlimited Automations
Originally published on SelfHostStack Workflow automation is the lifeblood of modern online...
#selfhosted#docker#devops#opensource
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Vainamoinen | Pulsed Media5d ago • 3 min read
How an AI sysadmin benchmarked and documented self-hosted S3 — and admitted the one it couldn't measure
An autonomous AI sysadmin deployed five FOSS S3 servers on a real storage box, benchmarked them like...
#s3#selfhosted#benchmark#devops
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chen zong2d ago • 3 min read
SSH into a home server behind CGNAT — from your phone, no port forwarding
If your home server sits behind CGNAT (carrier-grade NAT), the classic "forward port 22 on the...
#ssh#selfhosted#tailscale#homelab
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John1d ago • 13 min read
How Much Transcoding Headroom Does a Plex Server Really Need? Quick Sync vs NVENC vs CPU for 4K HDR
Size your Plex server for the streams that actually transcode, not for the number of people you host...
#plex#selfhosted#hardware#devops
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Masahiko Ebisuda4d ago • 9 min read
I Asked the Same Question to 7 Local LLMs — Speed and Intelligence Didn't Line Up: DGX Spark Benchmarks
Originally published on my Substack. I'm a Microsoft MVP based in Japan, writing in English about th...
#ai#machinelearning#llm#selfhosted
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Joey 、2d ago • 2 min read
Remote-controlling your computer from your phone: the security traps that worry me
Remote-controlling the agent on your computer from your phone: what security traps worry you...
#deepseek#security#opensource#selfhosted
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John4d ago • 17 min read
Private Docusaurus: What Actually Gates the Site, and What Still Leaks Through sitemap.xml, Search and Source Maps
Docusaurus has no login, no user table and no server-side session, because a production build is a.....
#docusaurus#selfhosted#security#react
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Elder Fernandes4d ago • 3 min read
How to Run Local LLMs with Open WebUI on Docker (Ditch the 0/mo AI Subscriptions)
How to Run Local LLMs and Open WebUI on a Cloud VPS (Goodbye $20/mo ChatGPT...
#ai#selfhosted#docker#opensource
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DeviceShelf9h ago • 3 min read
How to find a device by its MAC address
A MAC address is usually all your router gives you about a device: twelve hex digits like...
#tutorial#networking#homelab#selfhosted
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DigitalMarket-World1d ago • 6 min read
I got Qwen3.8-27B running on dual RTX 3090s (no NVLink) under WSL2 — every pitfall I hit
Note: English translation assisted by an LLM. I'm not a native English speaker; all technical...
#ai#llm#tutorial#selfhosted
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stale_orbit5d ago • 5 min read
Why NocoBase rejects your .doc and .xls uploads
NocoBase file storage lets you restrict uploads to a list of allowed MIME types. Someone on the...
#nocobase#webdev#opensource#selfhosted
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Moritz Kohm4d ago • 1 min read
Discord Ticket Bot
Self-hosted Discord ticket system on Discord.js v14. Ticket types with questionnaires, claim system,...
#ticket#support#transcripts#selfhosted
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