Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 37, 2026. Jellyfin 12, Nitter Lives, SourceHut Bans AI

A media server dropped a version number it never needed, two forges drew opposite conclusions about AI, and a project with tens of thousands of stars quietly turned off the lights. Here's what actually mattered in self-hosted land. 1. Jellyfin 12.0 lands, and drops the pointless

Open source softwares

Notifuse: Free Open Source Alternative to Mailchimp & Resend

Email platforms tend to fall into two camps. On one side, you have marketing platforms like Mailchimp, which provide newsletters, contact management, templates, campaigns, and automations. On the other, developer-focused services like Resend make it easy to integrate transactional email into an application. Notifuse takes an interesting approach by

Tutorial

Self-Host Continuwuity: A Lightweight Matrix Homeserver

Matrix has a reputation problem. Ask around about self-hosting your own chat server and someone will tell you about the Postgres tuning, the worker processes, the box that quietly ate 4 GB of RAM to serve nine people. That reputation is mostly about Synapse, the reference implementation, and it

DevOps

Upgrading to Appwrite 2.0: Postgres, Vectors, and Gotchas

Appwrite 2.0 landed on September 4 and the headline everyone repeated was "PostgreSQL is now the default." That is true, and it is also the least likely thing to affect you. If you are already running Appwrite, the default does not touch you. Your install stays on

AI

OpenProject + MCP: Agent Write Access on Community Edition

OpenProject 17.8 shipped on September 2 with a line in the release notes that made me sit up: the MCP server can now create and update work packages, add comments, and manage relations. Read-only MCP integrations are easy. Write access is the interesting part, because that is where

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 99 New Releases This Week (August 30 - September 5, 2026)

Some weeks the catalog is all feature work. Not this one. Four projects patched every supported branch at once, which usually means something landed in the advisory queue that nobody wanted sitting in the open. Everything that moved between August 30 and September 5, patches first. Security Alerts Keycloak 26.

AI

OpenClaw and Hermes: AI Agents Without Self-Hosting an LLM

You deploy OpenClaw, open it up, and it asks which model you want to use. So you go looking for the model. You spin up Ollama next to it, pull a 7B, ask your shiny new agent a question, and wait. And wait. Then you resize the VM, and it

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 36, 2026. AWS Buys DuckLabs, CRA Deadline, K8s 1.37

Short week, dense news. An acquisition that says a lot about how open-source governance is being structured in 2026, a compliance deadline that lands in seven days, and Kubernetes quietly shipping the feature that makes small clusters cheaper to run. Here is what mattered. 1. AWS bought DuckLabs. DuckDB

AI

Self-Host Neo4j: Knowledge Graph Memory for Your AI Agent

Ask your agent "what breaks if we upgrade the auth service" and watch a pure vector store handle it. It embeds the question and returns the five most similar chunks: the auth README, a paragraph about upgrades, a runbook using the same vocabulary. What you asked for was

Open source softwares

OpenRAG: Free Self-Hosted NotebookLM Alternative for Your Documents

AI-powered document search is quickly becoming one of the most useful applications of large language models. Instead of manually digging through PDFs, documentation, reports, and internal files, you can simply ask questions and get answers based on your own data. Google NotebookLM is one of the best-known tools

Self-Hosted

Paperless-ngx + Tika: Index Office Docs and Emails

You scan a contract, drop it into Paperless-ngx, and thirty seconds later you can search the text inside it. It feels like magic the first time. Then you drop in the .docx version of that same contract and it lands in your archive as a file with a name

AI

Self-Host Microcks: Mock the APIs Your AI Agent Calls

There is a failure mode that shows up over and over once you put an agent in a retry loop, and it goes like this. The loop says "check the order status, and if it fails, retry with backoff." The upstream API returns a 502 once. The agent

AI

Opik vs Langfuse: Self-Hosted LLM Observability in 2026

Opik and Langfuse both trace and evaluate LLM agents on your own servers. A hands-on comparison of licensing, team limits, stack weight and real hosting cost.

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 117 New Releases This Week (August 23-29, 2026)

One hundred and seventeen stable releases landed across 47 services in the Elestio catalog between August 23 and 29. Six of them are security fixes you should not sit on, and one patches a remote-code-execution path. Here is the week, sorted so you can find your stack fast.

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 35, 2026. PostgreSQL CVEs, Mojo, Planka SSO

Some weeks the self-hosted world coasts. This was not one of them. The largest security patch PostgreSQL has ever shipped, a Kanban board that locked SSO behind a paywall overnight, and a compiler that went open source three weeks after a $3.9 billion acquisition. Here are the seven

DevOps

Self-Host Nexus Repository to Beat Docker Hub Rate Limits

Your pipeline goes red at three in the afternoon. Nothing changed in the code. The logs say toomanyrequests: You have reached your pull rate limit, and by the time you've finished reading the error it works again, so you re-run the job and move on. Then it

AI

Self-Host OpenRAG: A Complete RAG Stack in One Deploy

Your RAG pipeline returns garbage answers, so you go looking for the culprit. Maybe the embedding model is too small. Maybe the vector database needs different index parameters. Maybe the chunk size is wrong. Meanwhile the actual problem happened twenty minutes earlier: your PDF parser flattened a financial table into

n8n

Self-Host n8n AI: Sandboxed Code Execution and Private Search

An AI assistant that writes code for you raises an awkward follow-up question: where does that code run? For a long time the honest answer in most automation tools was "in the same process as everything else, and we hope for the best." That answer aged badly.

Self-Hosted

PowerDNS: Self-Host Authoritative DNS with an API and DNSSEC

Nobody thinks about DNS until they need to automate it. Then you open your registrar's control panel, look for an API, and find either nothing, a rate limit that makes your certificate renewals flaky, or a "premium" tier that costs more than the domain. That'

Self-Hosted

WG-Easy: Set Up a WireGuard VPN with a Web UI in 10 Minutes

There's a moment every self-hoster hits. You've got Grafana, a Postgres admin panel, maybe an internal dashboard or two, and none of them should ever face the public internet. So you start down the rabbit hole: reverse proxy, basic auth, IP allowlists, a Cloudflare tunnel,

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 47 New Releases This Week (August 16-22, 2026)

Forty-seven services in the Elestio catalog shipped new stable releases between August 16 and 22. Four of them warrant a security section of their own, and one is an unauthenticated account takeover in Keycloak. Here is everything worth knowing, sorted by category. Security Alerts Keycloak 26.7.2 (August

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 34, 2026. Linux 7.2, isolated-vm Escape, Go 1.27

Two sandbox escapes, a kernel release Linus almost didn't have time for, and a Go release that quietly swapped the engine under encoding/json while you weren't looking. If you run anything self-hosted, this week's list is less "interesting reading" and

AI

Geta.Team Masterclass: Build AI Employees That Work Alone

Most AI tools wait. You open a tab, you type, you copy the answer somewhere useful. Nothing happens between your prompts, and the tool forgets you the moment you close it. Geta.Team takes a different position. You hire an employee, give it a mailbox and a phone number, tell

Open source softwares

OpenSign: Free Open Source Alternative to DocuSign

Electronic signatures have become a standard part of doing business online. Contracts, agreements, invoices, employee documents, customer forms—you can send almost anything for a signature without printing, scanning, or emailing PDFs back and forth. The problem is that popular e-signature platforms such as DocuSign can become surprisingly expensive,

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 45 New Releases This Week (August 9-15, 2026)

Forty-five services in the Elestio catalog published new releases between August 9 and 15, two of which are Helm chart updates rather than new application versions. It was a heavier security week than usual: WordPress patched a remote code execution flaw serious enough to backport across ten branches, and