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Self-Hosting

Self-hosting is the practice of running and maintaining software services on hardware you control — home servers, NAS appliances, and container stacks — instead of relying on managed cloud services.

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I connected Claude Code to my home server through MCP, and now I manage my entire lab by talking to it

…I ran 17 different containers for my self-hosted services. Some of them have fairly complex setups. For example, Immich, Jellyfin, and Nextcloud were hosted on my server, but their media lived…

Mar 30, 2026 · Shekhar Vaidya

Stop putting off VLANs in your homelab — Proxmox SDN makes them almost too easy

…So while SDNs within Proxmox don't eliminate networking fundamentals, they do make it easier to manage self-hosted services into specific VLANs, instead of using one blanket cover on the host…

Apr 14, 2026 · Rich Edmonds

I switched my whole house to a single VLAN and stopped pretending I needed segmentation

…From all the Reddit threads and self-hosting forums I visited, I noticed the same thing: every advanced homelab seemed segmented. There was always an IoT VLAN, a trusted VLAN, and a…

May 9, 2026 · Shekhar Vaidya

Pi-hole showed me 65,000 DNS queries in hours, and I didn't like where they were going

…are plenty of reasons why you should Invisible pipes, very visible data Building a homelab with self-hosted solutions changed the way I think about privacy, and DNS became one of the…

May 8, 2026 · Shekhar Vaidya

NAS makers are slowly admitting people want home servers, not just storage boxes

…Related 5 reasons self-hosted software is gaining popularity again Self-hosting software comes with certain undeniable benefits Self-hosting isn't a fringe hobby anymore It's becoming more mainstream by…

May 15, 2026 · Ty Sherback

I set up a home server for the first time and these 5 apps changed everything

…Related It took some work, but I'm in love with these 6 self-hosted services now Self-hosting has been an amazing journey Jellyfin A functional media server Jellyfin is a…

Apr 4, 2026 · Ty Sherback

Self-hosting a password manager sounds secure until you're locked out at the airport

…Password managers also need backups A rule for every self-hosted entity ever Any self-hosting guide worth its salt will hammer home the importance of backups. So, you dutifully set up…

Apr 3, 2026 · Chandraveer Mathur

This open-source app lets me manage my entire homelab from Telegram, and it's changed how I maintain things

…He writes for XDA-Developers, where he focuses on topics like productivity, networking, self-hosting, and more. Over the years, his work has also appeared in leading publications such as Android Police…

Apr 23, 2026 · Dhruv Bhutani

Most Pi-hole setups leak your browsing to your ISP — here's the encryption layer that stops it

…I installed Pi-hole on my homelab server and configured it as the DNS resolver for my entire network. All the devices were using the self-hosted solution to block ads and…

Apr 21, 2026 · Shekhar Vaidya

Docker bypasses your firewall silently, and most home labs don't realize it

…budget homelab. The tutorial ecosystem trains users into this trap Docker is open about it, but tutorials don't typically mention this Walk through almost any "getting started with self-hosting" guide…

May 12, 2026 · Ty Sherback

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