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Self-hosting with Coolify: a PaaS on your own server
How Coolify turns your VPS into a Heroku-like platform for deploying apps, databases, and services with a clean web UI.
Self-Hosting
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Backup strategies for self-hosted data
The 3-2-1 backup rule applied to self-hosted services, with practical tools and patterns I use to protect my data.
·7 min readSelf-Hosting
Self-hosting a media server with Jellyfin
Setting up Jellyfin to stream movies, music, and photos across all my devices without a Plex subscription.
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Replacing Google Photos with Immich
How I set up Immich as a self-hosted alternative to Google Photos, with automatic backup, face recognition, and map view.
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The case for self-hosting
Why I self-host services instead of relying on SaaS, what I run, and an honest look at the tradeoffs involved.
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Privacy-respecting alternatives to Google services
The services I use instead of Google for search, email, cloud storage, photos, and more, without sacrificing usability.
·3 min readNetworkingSelf-Hosting
AdGuard Home: DNS-level ad blocking for your network
How AdGuard Home compares to Pi-hole for network-wide ad blocking, and why I switched to it for my homelab.
·3 min readSecuritySelf-Hosting
Why I self-host my passwords with Vaultwarden
The case for running Vaultwarden instead of using a proprietary password manager, and how to set it up.
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Network-wide ad blocking with Pi-hole
How Pi-hole blocks ads and trackers for every device on your network, and how to set it up in Docker.
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Setting up Nextcloud with S3-compatible primary storage
How to configure a fresh Nextcloud installation to use S3-compatible object storage as its primary storage backend.
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Year in review: what I self-hosted in 2023
A look back at every service I ran on my own hardware in 2023, what stuck, what I dropped, and what surprised me.
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Automating backups with restic and rclone
How I back up my self-hosted services using restic for deduplication and rclone for syncing to remote storage.
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Self-hosting Gitea for private repositories
How I set up Gitea as a self-hosted Git server for private repos, and when it makes sense over GitHub or GitLab.
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Running Nextcloud as a Google Drive replacement
How I set up Nextcloud to replace Google Drive for file sync, sharing, and collaboration, and what the experience is actually like.
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Self-hosting Nominatim for local geocoding
Running your own geocoding service with Nominatim and OpenStreetMap data, without sending every address lookup to Google.
·6 min readSelf-Hosting
Protomaps: self-hosted vector maps from a single file
How Protomaps lets you serve a full vector map tileset from a single static file, no tile server needed.