10 quality-of-life services I self-host on my home lab
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These $10 home lab upgrades solved problems I didn't know I had
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I thought I needed a GPU for local LLMs until I tried this lean model
…Related 5 self-hosted LLMs I use for specific tasks My customized, self-hosted AI workflow Exploring Gemma 4 models The latest offerings from Google I have spent the last few days…
Cloudflare is by far the best service for home labbers and the wider internet, and that should make you nervous
…Related I used a Cloudflare Tunnel to self-host Nextcloud, and I wish I’d thought of it sooner After days of struggling to set up my self-hosted Nextcloud instance, Cloudflare…
Your last backup completing successfully doesn't mean your data is actually recoverable
…TrueNAS SCALE See at Official Site You can even follow these principles for cloud-based datasets I’ve centered this article around a mostly self-hosted (since I rely on Tailscale) setup…
I 3D printed a tool organizer and accidentally fixed my entire workflow
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My self-hosted search engine finds articles faster than Google
…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…
I switched from VS Code's marketplace to Open VSX, and Microsoft's is the one falling behind
…Related I self-hosted this VS Code fork so that I can access it in my browser, and I'll never go back Code-Server is perfect for a centralized programming workstation…
Testing new LLMs shouldn't require five subscriptions, and OpenRouter proves it
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My NAS does more than store files, and most people are barely using theirs
…But when it comes to running essential services 24/7, especially ones that need ample storage provisions, you can put your NAS to good use as a self-hosting workstation. Related Proxmox…