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I learned that you shouldn't self-host these 5 things the hard way
Hosting these services is worth it for a select few, but most should avoid it
I put a mini PC in my carry-on, and hotel TVs stopped being useless
I packed a mini PC for my hotel stay and turned the room’s TV into a proper screen for Jellyfin, browsing, home lab access, and more.
I revived my old Windows 10 gaming PC as a llama.cpp server, and it’s good enough to handle everyday productivity tools
My old Windows 10 PC now runs local AI models, and it's faster than I expected
I automated backups for my self-hosted services, and I finally stopped worrying about data loss
My Docker containers were easy to rebuild. The data inside them wasn't, so I finally automated the backups.
My 3D printer was burning filament on oversized purge towers, and one slicer change saved me hundreds a year
Oversized purge towers were quietly wasting filament on my multicolor prints. Reducing purge volumes cut waste and could save me hundreds each year.
Caddy replaced the reverse proxy config I dreaded, and HTTPS stopped being painful
Reverse proxies are supposed to make your life simple, and this one does
Start your homelab with just these 4 containers, not the 20-container checklist everyone recommends
The four is the point, not the limit.
This self-hosted tool replaced a year of backup scripts, and now I barely think about backups at all
I was backing up everything except my peace of mind.
My 3D printer's best feature is the local camera that stops me from wasting hours on failed prints
My local camera catches failures the cloud version would have missed
UGREEN's new smart home platform keeps your AI and storage local, no cloud required
UGREEN's new HomeAgent smart home platform keeps AI processing, storage, security footage, and device control local instead of relying on the cloud.
I stopped wasting my home server's USB ports on external drives, and now they actually do something useful
PCIe cards aren't the only useful upgrades for home lab nodes
After years of maintaining outdated self-hosted tools, I finally found their replacements
I gave my self-hosted stack a long-overdue refresh
I stopped ignoring my PCIe x1 slot, and a $30 NIC card fixed my home lab's network bottleneck
An easy, inexpensive upgrade that leveled up my whole home lab
Proxmox's official Arm release doesn't support Raspberry Pi, so I installed it anyway
Proxmox VE now officially supports Arm64, but not Raspberry Pi. I installed it on a Raspberry Pi anyway to see how well it actually works.
I ditched cloud AI for a local LLM in Proxmox, and my home lab finally makes sense
My home lab, my rules
I ditched my NAS's default OS for TrueNAS, and storage management finally made sense
TrueNAS gave me deeper storage control, better visibility, and more flexibility than the default NAS OS, even if it meant giving up some convenience.
Your Proxmox VMs don't need 8GB each and it's easy to see how much RAM they actually use
Don't go throwing all your RAM at Proxmox instances.
I trained Claude Code on my home server logs, and now it understands my infrastructure better than I do
Claude is helping me fill in the gaps in my knowledge every day
A year into self-hosting FOSS, and nobody warns you about these operational nightmares
Self-hosting FOSS tools is incredibly rewarding, but I would've appreciated a warning about these headaches
My 3D print model library was controlled chaos, but Manyfold made revision management painless
Manyfold made my messy 3D printing archive easier to browse, organize, and revisit without relying on cryptic folder and file names.
