Author: Christian Rakoot

Christian Rakoot, founder and author of Self Host Lab

Christian Rakoot is an industrial engineering and maintenance engineer who has been interested in computers since his first PC. It ran MS-DOS 3.22 on an Intel 286 with 4 MB of RAM, as best he remembers. Linux followed not long after, first Debian, then Mandrake.

He started programming in assembly, moved to Pascal and then Delphi, and later worked in C and the languages that came out of it. Small hardware kept his attention too, the Raspberry Pi in particular.

When fibre optic reached Madagascar more than fifteen years ago, hosting real services from home became worth doing. He has run mini PCs on Debian around the clock ever since, alongside Kimsufi servers for file storage and the applications that have no business sitting on a home connection. He prefers open source. None of his servers run Windows.

Portainer Docker 2.45.0 LTS Fixes a Critical Proxy Bypass

Portainer 2.45.0 LTS landed on August 27, rolling up the 2.40-2.44 STS releases into a new Long Term Support base.…

August 28, 20265 min read
n8n Patches Nine Security Advisories, Including Two Remote Code Execution Bugs

n8n’s August 20 security bulletin patches nine advisories, six of them High severity, including two separate paths to remote code…

August 26, 20264 min read
authentik 2026.8 Is OpenID Certified, With a Rust Rewrite and Two Breaking Changes

authentik 2026.8 arrived on 18 August 2026 as a major release for the self-hosted identity provider. It brings official OpenID…

August 24, 20265 min read
Grafana 13.2.0 Is Both a Security Fix and a Feature Release

Grafana 13.2.0 arrived on 18 August 2026 carrying two separate stories: a High-severity authorization flaw in Unified Alerting, tracked as…

August 24, 20264 min read
RAM Prices Are Up 500% in a Year, and Home Server Builds Are Paying for It

DDR5 kits are selling for roughly five times last year’s price, and a 128GB kit that once bottomed out at…

August 22, 20265 min read
Unraid 8 Announced: Fedora Base, Native Docker Compose, and Built-In Backups

Lime Technology has announced Unraid 8, moving the OS off Slackware onto Fedora and uCore, adding native Docker Compose inside…

August 22, 20265 min read
ESPHome 2026.8 Takes BLE Beyond the ESP32 and Turns the Pico W Into a Bluetooth Proxy

ESPHome 2026.8.0 moves BLE support out of the ESP32-only world: 39 BLE sensor platforms now run on the Raspberry Pi…

August 20, 20264 min read
Portainer Update 2.39.6 LTS Adds SSRF Protection and a Swarm Path Traversal Fix

Portainer 2.39.6 LTS landed on August 12 with a configurable SSRF allowlist that runs in off, audit, or enforce mode,…

August 18, 20265 min read
Ollama Muse Glimmer: Meta’s New Open Model Runs on Apple Silicon First

Ollama v0.32.7 adds Muse Glimmer, a 30B multimodal model from Meta Superintelligence Labs. Support is initial and limited to the…

August 14, 20264 min read
Gitea CVE-2026-59774: Critical Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

CVE-2026-59774 is a critical CVSS 9.8 vulnerability in Gitea 1.22.1–1.27.0 allowing arbitrary file read via Org-mode markup. Active exploitation confirmed.…

August 13, 20263 min read