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Self-hosting discussions are centered on practical home-lab buildouts (servers, racks, setups) and specific tools/services that enhance privacy and management—especially database backup/restore with Portabase and network ad blocking via Self-hosted Technitium DNS in Home Assistant.

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Key Takeaway Expect self-hosting threads to focus less on hardware novelty and more on reliable services—DNS ad blocking in Home Assistant and safer operations via backup/restore tools like Portabase.
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home-lab builds privacy & ad blocking backup/restore tools migration & advice self-hosting
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Expect self-hosting threads to focus less on hardware novelty and more on reliable services—DNS ad blocking in Home Assistant and safer operations via backup/restore tools like Portabase.

Self-hosting discussions are centered on practical home-lab buildouts (servers, racks, setups) and specific tools/services that enhance privacy and management—especially database backup/restore with Portabase and network ad blocking via Self-hosted Technitium DNS in Home Assistant.

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XDA-Developers · 3h ago
I replaced GitHub Copilot with a self-hosted AI and I won’t go back

Briefing Findings · Expect self-hosting threads

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Service for backup/restore Portabase is an open-source tool to backup and restore self-hosted databases.
Use case in Home Assistant Technitium DNS is self-hosted for whole-network ad blocking in Home Assistant.
Migration intent A thread is specifically about rebuilding a home server and needing migration advice.

What to Watch

  • Follow r/homeassistant for Technitium DNS setup threads focused on whole-network ad blocking. XDA Developers
  • Watch for new Portabase usage guides and feature updates in r/homelab and r/HomeServer threads. r/homelab
  • Check r/HomeServer for step-by-step migration advice as more people rebuild home servers. r/HomeServer

What Changed

  • 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
  • Portabase: open-source tool to backup and restore self-hosted databases 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/delbirin · 

TLSOps – self-hosted domain-based WireGuard routing for your network

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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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