… Windows Server is a pain to manage , and nobody wants to be a Windows sysadmin at home. Even better, why limit yourself to one operating system at all, when Proxmox exists? It's by far my favorite operating system for self-hosting, and my home server wouldn't be the same without it. …
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… Related It took some work, but I'm in love with these 6 self-hosted services now Self-hosting has been an amazing journey I was paying for convenience, and replacing that with a homelab setup felt unrealistic at the time. …
… This is not autopilot, but it is real progress Claude Code Routines don’t make a home lab self-healing, and I don’t want them to. A self-hosted setup is too personal, too weird, and too full of tiny exceptions for that kind of blind confidence. …
I keep thinking about things like SSO and it's got me curious, how are all of you locking down your public-facing services? Currently, I've got only a select few - primarily Seerr, Immich, Mealie, and FoundryVTT - public…
I don’t mean just the fun part of getting something working yourself — which is already a big reason many of us do it. But has self-hosting helped you professionally too? I feel like a lot of people learned Linux, networ…
I remember when I was first starting out, I tried Proxmox as a recommendation from someone on Reddit, and I was very intimidated. This was before I started in IT, before college, certs, etc. I ended up going with a Windo…
Hi everyone, I’m building Jabali Panel, a free and open-source web hosting control panel for Debian servers. The project is still young, but the community is slowly growing, and I’m now looking for testers and early user…
Lurked here for a while, learned a ton from posts like the one I'm hoping this becomes. Time to give back. Quick context: I'm IT support by trade. Not a developer, not a sysadmin. Everything in this post I figured out by…
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… Before that, I was doing sysadmin work where, for me, I immediately understood the value proposition of not having to do automation myself. …
… Why hurt yourself like that against an already more popular competitor? …