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People are sharing practical self-hosting projects and setup guides for home and homelabs—everything from dashboards and DNS ad-blocking to tools for backing up self-hosted databases. Migration, hardware layouts, and “best practices” are also recurring topics, especially in community forums like r/selfhosted and r/homelab.

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Key Takeaway Self-hosting momentum is centered on building and maintaining reliable home services—dashboards, ad-blocking DNS, and backup tools—to make setups durable.
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Self-hosting momentum is centered on building and maintaining reliable home services—dashboards, ad-blocking DNS, and backup tools—to make setups durable.

People are sharing practical self-hosting projects and setup guides for home and homelabs—everything from dashboards and DNS ad-blocking to tools for backing up self-hosted databases. Migration, hardware layouts, and “best practices” are also recurring topics, especially in community forums like r/selfhosted and r/homelab.

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XDA-Developers · 4h ago
I replaced GitHub Copilot with a self-hosted AI and I won’t go back

Briefing Findings · Self-hosting momentum is centered

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DNS tool Technitium DNS for whole-network ad blocking in Home Assistant
Tool name Portabase—open-source backup and restore for self-hosted databases
Service type Terminal dashboard built for a homelab
Platform Home Assistant used to integrate self-hosted Technitium DNS

What to Watch

  • Follow r/selfhosted for additional “best practices” posts and operational guidance for developers. r/selfhosted
  • Watch for more Home Assistant integration write-ups like Technitium DNS-based whole-network ad blocking. XDA Developers
  • Keep an eye on Portabase updates as more users adopt it for backup/restore of self-hosted databases. XDA Developers

What Changed

  • Built a terminal dashboard for my homelab igorslab.de
  • IT support by day, homelab by night. Built this with Google, YouTube, and r/homelab as my only teachers. Here's what 12 months looks like. XDA Developers
  • Self-hosted Technitium DNS in Home Assistant for whole-network ad blocking XDA Developers
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igorslab.de

Homelab Mini: Uptime Kuma Dashboard - Installation und Konfiguration …

Heute bedienen wir ein wenig das Klischee, dass in jedem Homelab mehr Monitoring-Tools und Dashboards laufen, als eigentliche Dienste betrieben werden.

3d ago Tim Kutzner
xda-developers.com

My home lab dashboards were a mess until I let ChatGPT tie them together

My home lab dashboards were scattered across too many tools, but ChatGPT helped tie them together into a single, easier-to-manage dashboard.

10d ago Jeff Butts
xda-developers.com

I stopped running Tailscale in every container, and my home lab instantly became simpler

A subnet router made my Tailscale admin panel a lot more organized

10d ago Ayush Pande

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Hacker News · u/philipisik · 

Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend

Hi HN! I'm Philip, one of the founders of Tiptap. Next to our open-source rich text editor framework, we started developing Hocuspocus about five years ago and open-sourced it too, to solve one of our biggest challenges …

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A self-hosted, unified webmail client

A self-hosted, unified webmail client

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Hacker News · u/jcastro · 

Thanks Microsoft, you solved my homelab problem

Thanks Microsoft, you solved my homelab problem

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r/selfhosted · u/TerminalFoo · 

A lot of bot posts

I hope folks are very skeptical of what seems like 90% of the posts in /r/selfhosted. They are bot posts. They read like someone is just starting out on their selfhosting journey or they're asking for the best way to do …
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