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Gladys Assistant: A Privacy-First Hub for Your Homelab
A smart home is just one of the amazing things that can be controlled and built with your own homelab. Let’s take a look at a privacy-first install built for your smart home control.
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Kodi: The Ultimate Open-Source Home Theatre Software for Your Homelab
The quest for the perfect media server solution is a familiar journey. Enter Kodi, the free and open-source home theatre software that has been a cornerstone of the home media landscape for years.
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Secure Your Connection To Your Homelab with WireGuard
Creating a secure connection to your self-hosted services in your homelab is extremely important. WireGuard is an easy and secure VPN tunnel service that is a staple in any homelab setup.
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Green Thumbs Unite: Taming Your Urban Jungle with HortusFox in Your Homelab
If you have used Plant-it before, you will know how awesome it is to bring a bit of greenery into our homelab. Today we looka t al alternative for Plant-it: HortusFox
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BillionMail: Your Homelab’s Gateway to Self-Hosted Email Freedom with SMTP
Building your homelab to backup your photos from your phone is one thing, but what about managing your email? Let’s take a look if we can save some money and take control of our emails by self-hosting our own SMTP client.
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ZenArmor in the Homelab: Is This Paid NGFW Worth It for Enthusiasts?
For the dedicated self-hosting enthusiast, the homelab is a realm of endless experimentation and learning. From spinning up new services to fine-tuning network performance, the homelab is a playground for the curious. But with great power comes the need for robust security. While many opt for open-source solutions to guard their digital fortresses, a compelling…
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Unleash Your Inner Time Lord: A Guide to Self-Hosting TimeTagger for Homelab Enthusiasts
As we strive to better our self-hosting homelab every day, it pays to start thinnking of managing our time as well. This is where TimeTagger can help us get ahead.
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Build Your Homelab: 45 – Immich LXC in Proxmox with Helper Scripts
To install Immich in our Proxmox Homelab previously, we had to first install a Docker LXC and then Immich. This changed with the introduction of a new LXC Helper Script that was released. Let’s look at installing Immich a bit easier.
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Secure Your Homelab with Fail2ban
Keeping your self-hosting homelab safe is one of the most important aspects of any person that wants to keep control of their data. Let’s take a look at protecting our homelab against brute force attacks.
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Raspberry Pi vs. Proxmox: Choosing the Right Home for Your Home Assistant
Running Home Assistant in your homelab is a must for most self-hosters. But should you run it in your Proxmox instance or on your Raspberry Pi? Let’s take a look at a detailed comparison between the two options.
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Unleash Your Inner Audiophile: A Homelabber’s Guide to Lyrion Music Server
We all need some music in our life – be it from purchased music albums or internet radio. Lyrion will fulfill this requirement in your homelab setup with ease.
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Level Up Your Homelab: Self-Host Your Collaboration with Slack Alternative Mattermost
Ever wanted to take control of your collaboration platform? If you want to self-host your team’s Slack alternative, then Mattermost is the most exciting self-hosting service in your homelab.
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Take Control of Your Notes: Self-Hosting Notesnook in Your Homelab
Notesnook isn’t just another note-taking app; it’s built with a self-hosting and privacy-first mentality, making it a perfect fit for those who value control and security: Perfect for self-hosters’ homelabs
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RabbitMQ vs. Kafka in Your Homelab: Choosing the Right Message Broker
In your quest for the perfect homelab setup, you’ve likely stumbled upon message brokers like RabbitMQ and Kafka. Both help different applications communicate, but which one is right for your homelab?
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pfSense: The Open-Source Guardian of Your Homelab Network
Let’s dive into the world of pfSense and explore how it can become the cornerstone of your self-hosting homelab!
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Bolster Your Homelab Defenses: An Introduction to CrowdSec
Security in a self-hoster’s homelab is of utmost importance. Let’s take a look at one of the best services you can run to secure your homelab.
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Self-Hosting Game Servers at Home with Pelican: Gaming In Your Homelab
Hosting your own game server can be a fantastic way to run an isolated game server just for yourself and friends. Taking it a step further and self-hosting it can save you quite a bit of cash.
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Saving Energy, Keeping Cool: A Beginner’s Guide to Undervolting
Besides choosing between an air or liquid cooler for your CPU, there is one more option to consider to reduce heat while also being able to save some energy. Let’s take a look at undervolting your CPU.
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Unlock Your Relationships: Self-Hosting Monica CRM in Your Homelab
Managing Customer Relationships can be quite a daunting task, so CRM tools are a stable in any professional’s life. But what if we want to keep control of our data by self-hosting our own CRM? Let’s look at Monica
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Keeping Your Digital Keys Safe: Understanding the Bitwarden PDF Vulnerability (And Why You Might Look at Vaultwarden)
With the recent Bitwarden PDF vulnerability, it is ever important to make sure your self-hosted password manager is up to date. Let’s also look at a great self-hosted alternative called Vaultwarden
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Taming the Homelab Hydra: Secure Your Self-Hosted Services with Authentik
With the growing number of apps to self-host in your homelab comes the reality of putting proper security in place. Authentik can make access security a breeze.