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Trap bots on your server
Maurycy's writeup on setting up a bot honeypot on your server — serving intentionally garbled content and endless links to trap and slow down scrapers. A practical defensive technique for server operators dealing with aggressive crawlers.
Disk Prices on eBay
A price tracker for hard disk drives on eBay, sorted by cost-per-TB. Useful when building out storage-heavy homelab or NAS setups where getting the best $/TB matters.
AnythingLLM: Documents to Chatbot
AnythingLLM is a full-stack open-source application for turning any document collection into a chatbot — with a polished UI, workspace management, and multi-model support. The self-hosted alternative to ChatGPT Enterprise for teams wanting document Q&A over their own files.
OpenChat: LLM Custom Chatbot Console
OpenChat is an open-source LLM chatbot console with document ingestion and custom bot creation — an early self-hosted alternative to ChatGPT for teams wanting to deploy domain-specific chatbots over their own data.
microfeed: Self-Hosted CMS on Cloudflare
microfeed is a lightweight self-hosted CMS that runs entirely on Cloudflare's free tier — Workers, R2, D1 — for publishing podcasts, blogs, photos, videos, and curated links. An elegant example of serverless CMS architecture with near-zero hosting costs.
Self-Hosting Guide
A comprehensive GitHub reference covering self-hosted alternatives to cloud services — NAS, media servers, home automation, password managers, and more. The definitive starting point for anyone building a home server setup.
Umbrel: Personal Server OS for Self-Hosting
Umbrel is a personal server OS for self-hosting — one-click installs for Bitcoin nodes, Lightning Network nodes, Nextcloud, and dozens of other apps on a Raspberry Pi or home server. The friendliest on-ramp to self-sovereign infrastructure.
kindleServer: Serve Local Files to Kindle
kindleServer serves local HTML files with a Kindle-friendly UI and a Read Mode powered by ReadabiliPy — a simple self-hosted solution for reading long-form web content on a Kindle without relying on Pocket or Send to Kindle.
SmoothWAN: Router for Speedify WAN Bonding
SmoothWAN is an OpenWrt-based router firmware that makes setting up Speedify for WAN bonding simple — combining multiple internet connections (4G, cable, DSL) for higher bandwidth and resilience. A practical project for anyone with unreliable internet.
SEPIA: Open-Source Voice Assistant
SEPIA is an open-source, self-hosted voice assistant framework — a privacy-preserving alternative to Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri. Runs entirely on your own server, with custom skill development support.
Running an Ethereum Full Node on a Raspberry Pi 4
A guide to running an Ethereum full node on a Raspberry Pi 4 — a self-sovereign approach to blockchain access that avoids trusting centralized RPC providers like Infura. Technical tutorial covering hardware, software, and sync process.
Server Setup 2022
TheOrangeOne's 2022 server setup overview — hardware, OS, containerization, monitoring, backup strategy. A well-documented example of a mature home server stack with emphasis on reliability and observability.
Screw It, I'll Host It Myself
A personal account of moving from cloud services to self-hosted alternatives — the motivations, the setup, and the tradeoffs. Captures the early-2022 wave of interest in digital self-sovereignty driven by concerns about SaaS pricing and data privacy.
NixOS: Headless Home Assistant VM
A tutorial on running Home Assistant as a headless VM on NixOS — covering NixOS configuration, declarative VM setup, and integrating Home Assistant into a reproducible infrastructure-as-code home lab. Good example of the NixOS approach applied to home automation.
Grist: Open-Source Spreadsheet-Database
Grist is an open-source spreadsheet-database hybrid — like Airtable or Notion Database but self-hostable, with Python formulas and a relational data model. Fills the gap between rigid spreadsheets and heavyweight databases for structured data work.
My Smart Home 2021
A detailed writeup of a production Home Assistant smart home setup in 2021 — covering hardware choices, integrations, automations, and lessons learned. A useful reference for anyone building a serious self-hosted home automation system.
Awesome OSS Alternatives to SaaS
A curated GitHub awesome list of open-source alternatives to well-known SaaS products, maintained by Runa Capital. The go-to reference when you want to self-host rather than pay for a specific commercial service.
Enabling SSL in Your Local Network
A practical approach to getting proper SSL certificates for local network services using Let's Encrypt wildcard certs and DNS validation — avoiding the browser warnings of self-signed certs without exposing services to the internet. Clean solution for anyone running internal homelab services.
Docker VM on Proxmox with RancherOS and Portainer
A walkthrough for running Docker on Proxmox using RancherOS as a minimal container-focused VM OS, with Portainer for container management UI. RancherOS is now unmaintained, but the pattern of a dedicated Docker VM inside Proxmox remains common.
smasher164/nas: Personal NAS Configuration
A personal NAS configuration repository (smasher164) — useful as a reference implementation for how someone configured their network-attached storage, likely using NixOS for reproducible system configuration. Bookmarked the same day as homelab, Headscale, and Netmaker notes.
KubeSail: Kubernetes Templates for Self-Hosting
KubeSail is a managed Kubernetes platform with a library of one-click deployment templates for self-hosted apps — deploy Nextcloud, Gitea, Bitwarden, and dozens more to your own cluster or KubeSail's hosting. Lowers the Kubernetes barrier for self-hosters.
Homelab: Fully Automated Self-Hosting Infrastructure
Khue's homelab is a fully automated self-hosting infrastructure project: from empty disk to running services with a single command, using Ansible for bare-metal provisioning, K3s for Kubernetes, and ArgoCD for GitOps deployment. A reference architecture for serious homelab automation.
How to Set Up a Practically Free CDN
A GitHub gist guide to setting up a practically free CDN for personal projects using Cloudflare and free-tier object storage. Covers the stack for serving static assets globally without paying enterprise CDN prices.
How to Back Up Your Git Repositories
A Medium guide on backing up git repositories — covering bare clone strategy, rsync to external storage, and hosting your own Gitea/Gogs instance. Addresses the risk of losing code when hosting platforms go down or accounts get banned.
How I Store My 1's and 0's: ZFS + Bargain HP Microserver = JOY
A practical guide to building a home NAS with ZFS on a cheap HP ProLiant Microserver N36L — a popular entry-level home server that punched above its weight for storage. ZFS's data integrity features made it the file system of choice for anyone who cared about bit-rot.
Back That Gmail Up
Jerod Santo's guide to backing up Gmail using getmail or similar IMAP tools — a practical reminder that cloud-hosted email is not automatically backed up and depends entirely on Google's availability and goodwill.