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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.
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Meet the Radxa Rock 4D: Powering Your Edge AI and 4K Dreams
As an alternative to a Raspberry Pi 5 with a Hailo 8L AI Module, Radxa offers a Radxa Rock 4D with integrated AI Processing. Let’s take a look at the two modules
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Massive Data Leak Exposes 184 Million Logins: A Homelabber’s Wake-Up Call
Yet another data leak, this time with 184 million records, has hit close to home just days after the Steam data Leak scare. The reality is that self-hosting and homelabs are starting to become a necessity, not a luxury.
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Taming Your Digital Brain: Why Blinko Might Be Your Perfect Self-Hosted Note-Taking Companion
Have you ever got an idea that you wanted to take down, but before you could take it down, ten other things took priority? Chances of the idea being gone is fairly big. Let’s look at a fantastic note-taking app that can help with the quick-jot-down-idea process.
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Take Control of Your Digital Diary: Self-Hosting Calendars and Contacts with Radicale
If you’re someone who enjoys tinkering with technology and wants to take a step towards digital independence, building a homelab and self-hosting services can be an incredibly rewarding experience. One such service that offers significant benefits for personal data management is Radicale – a simple yet powerful CalDAV and CardDAV server.
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Simplifying Your Server Monitoring: Introducing Beszel – A Lighter Alternative to Prometheus/Grafana?
One of the most important aspects of any homelab is being able to monitor service health and get notified when an issue occurs. Let’s take a look at a all-in-one service that will give us an early warning.
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Unlock Your eBook Library Anywhere: A Beginner’s Guide to Calibre-Web in Your Homelab
If you are curious about adding an awesome eBook server to your homelab setup, this is the place to be. We’ll explore what Calibre-Web is, its fantastic features, some limitations to be aware of, and the easiest way to get it up and running.
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Level Up Your Self-Hosted Media Game with ConvertX: Your All-in-One File Conversion Powerhouse
Managing a diverse collection of media and document files is a common reality. From esoteric image formats to bulky video files, the need to convert files into more usable or efficient formats is a constant. Enter ConvertX, a versatile, self-hosted file conversion tool designed to streamline this very process.
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Introducing OpenAI Codex: Your New AI Software Engineering Agent
Unlike earlier code assistants that generate inline suggestions, Codex operates as a virtual co-worker, autonomously tackling multiple, well-scoped tasks, such as writing new features, diagnosing and fixing bugs, running test suites, and proposing pull requests, in isolated sandbox environments preloaded with your repository.
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Your Internet Secrets: Why Encrypted DNS Matters (and Why You Should Care)
While one of the easiest things to do to speed up your internet is to make sure your DNS is the best it can be, we also need to take privacy and security in mind. This means we need to start thinking bout encrypting our DNS queries.