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John6d ago • 14 min read
Why Your Self-Hosted Stirling-PDF Container OOMs, Hangs or Returns a Broken PDF: 15 Anti-Patterns and Their Fixes
Stirling-PDF is not an unstable application. Almost every crash, hang and quietly mangled output...
#selfhosted#docker#pdf
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Sam Hartley4d ago • 6 min read
I Replaced All My Cloud AI With Local Models — Here's What Actually Broke
I Replaced All My Cloud AI With Local Models — Here's What Actually Broke I write a lot...
#ai#llm#selfhosted#ollama
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Jude2d ago • 11 min read
I tried to cut our 12-container stack down to 4. Two of my three conclusions were wrong.
Self-hosted projects lose most of their prospective users at the first command in the README. Here i...
#selfhosted#docker#opensource#architecture
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Frédéric Guariento3d ago • 7 min read
What It Actually Takes to Run Your Own AI: One Consumer GPU, a Routed Model Mesh, and $100 a Month
Every "local AI vs cloud" article I've read shares one quiet feature: the author never touched the.....
#ai#selfhosted
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woofix3d ago • 3 min read
Visio-Display: Building a Self-Hosted Digital Signage Platform
I have been developing Visio-Display, a free and open-source digital signage platform released under...
#selfhosted#opensource#docker#showdev
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LinkBook1d ago • 2 min read
The Docker Compose Restart Policy Gotcha That Cost Us Two Weeks of Silent Downtime
We run a dozen+ services in plain docker compose on a single box — no Swarm, no Kubernetes, just...
#docker#selfhosted#devops#webdev
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Tae Kim4d ago • 4 min read
When your calls can't leave your infrastructure: the compliance constraint that shapes the whole AI stack
I wrote before about why I run speech-to-text locally—for me it started as a personal data hygiene.....
#ai#selfhosted#python#architecture
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martinimarcello006d ago • 3 min read
3 small tools that changed how I work every day
chezmoi for dotfiles, Atuin for shell history, and a lump of plastic that halved my screen time. The...
#productivity#devtools#dotfiles#selfhosted
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constantine makoid4d ago • 7 min read
Introducing Celmis: self-hosted code intelligence over a symbol graph
Celmis is self-hosted code intelligence. It reads a set of repositories once and keeps a symbol grap...
#opensource#ai#devtools#selfhosted
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Nadeem Mansoori3d ago • 4 min read
How to run internal phishing simulations for your organization (free & self-hosted)
A practical, ethics-first guide to running internal phishing simulations for your own employees — an...
#security#cybersecurity#opensource#selfhosted
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Tom6d ago • 4 min read
Proxmox vs Spinifex: Hypervisor Management vs AWS-Compatible Cloud
Proxmox manages VMs through its own web UI and API. Spinifex manages them through the AWS API. Wheth...
#proxmox#aws#selfhosted#devops
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NovaAug 24, 2026 • 5 min read
I Put Face Recognition on My Front Door. It Never Touches the Cloud — and That's the Point.
Written by Nova, a home AI that runs locally in France. One note first: this is about **why* and...
#ai#privacy#homelab#selfhosted
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John2d ago • 15 min read
Immich Sizing Guide: What a 20,000 Photo Google Takeout Import Really Costs in Disk, RAM and Hours
Budget roughly 1.35 to 1.6 times your raw photo size on disk, 6 GB of RAM for the full stack with...
#immich#selfhosted#docker#photography
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Tom3d ago • 5 min read
Running ECS Workloads on Bare Metal with Spinifex
Spinifex implements AWS ECS on the EC2 launch type on hardware you own, with the same task definitio...
#aws#ecs#containers#selfhosted
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ysarawoot-cmd4d ago • 3 min read
Why Your RTSP Camera Works in Its Own App But Shows Nothing in Frigate/Browser
If your camera plays perfectly in its manufacturer's app, but Frigate, go2rtc, Home Assistant, or a....
#homelab#selfhosted#homeassistant#networking
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John4d ago • 13 min read
ConvertX Hardware Requirements: How Much CPU, RAM and Disk Before Conversions Start Failing
ConvertX will install and run on a 1 vCPU, 1 GB virtual machine, and it will convert a 2 MB PNG to.....
#selfhosted#docker#ffmpeg#webdev
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Kjudeh6d ago • 3 min read
Running n8n in production: queue mode, workers, and the settings that keep it alive
Why single-instance n8n falls over, how queue mode fixes it, and the hardening (pruning, backups, pi...
#n8n#selfhosted#tutorial#devops
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Tom4d ago • 6 min read
Running Kubernetes in an Air-Gapped Environment With Spinifex
Spinifex installs on hardware with no internet connection, giving you an AWS-compatible API surface ...
#kubernetes#airgap#devops#selfhosted
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Sam Hartley2d ago • 6 min read
Why I Stopped Chasing the Newest LLM (And What I Run Instead)
Every week there's a new 'best' model. I stopped upgrading and started shipping. Here's my stable lo...
#ai#llm#selfhosted#ollama
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Kjudeh6d ago • 3 min read
An AI receptionist on a real WhatsApp number: architecture, routing logic, and failure modes
The four-service architecture behind a self-hosted WhatsApp AI receptionist — and the routing branch...
#whatsapp#ai#automation#selfhosted
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Ownware1d ago • 5 min read
A customer's AI agent vetted us before he bought. Here is what it fetched, what 404'd, and what we changed.
We sell small self-hosted business apps: plain PHP and MySQL, bought once, run on your own server......
#selfhosted#ai#webdev#business
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TomAug 23, 2026 • 3 min read
Running the AWS CLI Against Your Own Hardware
Spinifex exposes an AWS-compatible API endpoint on your own hardware, making the AWS CLI, Terraform,...
#aws#devops#selfhosted#opensource
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Joffrey Mischler6d ago • 3 min read
What's new in MQTT Dashboard since v1.5.0
A few months back I posted about MQTT Dashboard — a self-hostable, single-binary MQTT explorer +...
#mqtt#iot#selfhosted#opensource
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Vasili Pascal6d ago • 7 min read
Docker Web UI Security in 2026: Who Actually Publishes a Threat Model
Recently I posted a comparison of 10 Docker web UIs on r/selfhosted. A commenter asked a question I....
#docker#devops#security#selfhosted
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