Home Assistant Alternatives and the Self-Hosted Home Automation Stack
Home Assistant gets all the attention, but a real self-hosted smart home is usually a stack: a hub, protocol bridges…
Category: Homelab
Hardware, hypervisors, NAS, storage and networking — build and run your home server infrastructure.
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Self-Hosted Cloud Storage in 2026: Nextcloud vs. Seafile vs. Syncthing vs. Cloudreve
Google Drive fills up, Dropbox raises its price again, and suddenly self-hosting your own files looks appealing. The confusing part…
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Uptime Kuma: The Complete Guide to Self-Hosted Status Pages and Alerts
The self-hosted monitoring comparison covers Uptime Kuma as the tool for one specific question: is a service actually reachable right…
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Prometheus and Grafana Docker Compose: Build a Self-Hosted Monitoring Stack
The comparison of self-hosted monitoring tools covers why Prometheus and Grafana are usually the answer once a homelab outgrows a…
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Self-Hosted Monitoring in 2026: Netdata vs. Prometheus/Grafana vs. Uptime Kuma
At some point every homelab crosses a line. You go from three containers on a mini PC to a dozen…
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Forgejo v16.0 Ships SSRF Hardening, Granular Notifications, and JWT-Based Actions Integrations
Lire cet article en français : Forgejo v16.0 : durcissement SSRF, notifications par dépôt et intégrations Actions via JWT Forgejo,…
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Critical Gitea Docker Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Actively Exploited (CVE-2026-20896)
CVE-2026-20896 carries a CVSS score of 9.8, rated Critical, and it’s now being actively exploited against self-hosted Gitea instances that…
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The History of Docker
Docker began as a side project inside dotCloud, a struggling Paris-founded PaaS startup that pivoted its entire business around it…
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The History of Unraid
Unraid has never been open source, never been free, and never quite fit the usual homelab origin story. It started…
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The History of Proxmox VE
Proxmox VE started in 2005 as two Austrian brothers’ fix for OpenVZ’s missing backup tool, not a plan to dethrone…
