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

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

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

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.

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

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'

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

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,

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

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

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

Geta.Team Masterclass: Build AI Employees That Work Alone

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

OpenSign: Free Open Source Alternative to DocuSign

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,

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

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

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 33, 2026. Jellyfin Exodus, rsync 33 CVEs, Podman 6.1

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 33, 2026. Jellyfin Exodus, rsync 33 CVEs, Podman 6.1

This was a rough week for the software most of us actually run. Jellyfin lost three of its most senior people in a matter of days. The rsync project shipped a release fixing 33 security issues at once, which is not a number you see on a 30-year-old

OpenHands: Self-Host Your Own AI Dev Team (Any Model, Any Repo)

OpenHands: Self-Host Your Own AI Dev Team (Any Model, Any Repo)

AI coding assistants are quickly evolving from autocomplete tools into autonomous agents capable of understanding repositories, editing files, running commands, testing applications, and completing entire development tasks. OpenHands takes this idea further by providing an open-source platform for running AI software development agents in your own environment. Instead of

Milvus 3.0 Went Lake-Native: What Actually Changed

Vector Database

Milvus 3.0 Went Lake-Native: What Actually Changed

Here's the thing about upgrading to Milvus 3.0: you can do it, restart everything, watch your queries run exactly as before, and conclude that the release was overhyped. That's a reasonable conclusion and it's wrong. The headline feature is switched off by default,

Elestio Catalog Updates: 44 New Releases This Week (August 2-8, 2026)

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 44 New Releases This Week (August 2-8, 2026)

Busy week across the catalog. Forty-four services shipped stable releases between August 2 and 8, and three of them are security updates you'll want to apply before anything else. Milvus also crossed a major version line, and NocoDB shipped the biggest single feature of the week. Security

Inside VictoriaMetrics: Why It Needs Less RAM Than Prometheus

Inside VictoriaMetrics: Why It Needs Less RAM Than Prometheus

The first time I watched Prometheus get OOM-killed at 3am, I did what everyone does: I gave it a bigger box. That worked for about four months. Then it happened again, and the box I needed next was expensive enough that somebody was going to ask me to justify

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 32, 2026. Proxmox Arm64, Rust AI Policy, Gitea CVE

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 32, 2026. Proxmox Arm64, Rust AI Policy, Gitea CVE

Week 32 delivered the thing the homelab crowd has wanted since the first Raspberry Pi cluster: real Arm virtualization, officially supported. It was also the week Rust told its contributors to stop letting language models write their patches, and the week a 9.8 in Gitea reminded everyone that self-

Umami vs PostHog: Which Self-Hosted Analytics in 2026?

Umami vs PostHog: Which Self-Hosted Analytics in 2026?

You decided to stop handing your visitors to Google Analytics, went looking for a self-hosted replacement, and quickly ran into the two names everyone mentions: Umami and PostHog. On a features page they look like rivals. They are not, really. One is a lightweight web-traffic counter you can

Nao: Free Open Source AI Data Analyst (Chat With Your Data)

Nao: Free Open Source AI Data Analyst (Chat With Your Data)

Business data is incredibly valuable, but actually extracting useful information from it often means writing SQL queries, navigating dashboards, or asking a data analyst to investigate something for you. Nao takes a different approach: it gives your organization an AI data analyst that you can simply talk to. Nao is

Give Your AI Agent a Backend with PocketBase

Give Your AI Agent a Backend with PocketBase

Give an AI agent a task and watch what it actually needs. It has to remember things between runs. It has to store the files it produces. It needs to know which user it is acting for. And the humans watching want to see what it is doing in real

Introducing Historical Metrics: Look Back Up to 31 Days in Your Dashboard

Introducing Historical Metrics: Look Back Up to 31 Days in Your Dashboard

You know the feeling. Someone pings you: "the app felt slow around 2 AM last night." You open your dashboard, and the live graph shows you exactly one thing: right now, everything is fine. The moment you needed is gone, because a live chart only ever knows the

Self-Host Huly: One Open-Source App to Replace Jira, Linear, and Notion

Project Management

Self-Host Huly: One Open-Source App to Replace Jira, Linear, and Notion

Count the tabs your team lives in. Jira or Linear for issues. Notion or Confluence for docs. Slack for chat. A separate app for calls. Each one is a login, a monthly per-seat bill, and a place where half the context lives while the other half lives somewhere else.

Elestio Catalog Updates: 13 New Releases This Week (July 26 - August 1, 2026)

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 13 New Releases This Week (July 26 - August 1, 2026)

It was a busy week across the Elestio catalog, with releases landing everywhere from databases to document management. This roundup covers the notable open-source updates from July 26 to August 1, 2026, so you can see what changed in the tools you actually run. No critical CVEs hit catalog

Self-Host Twenty: The Open-Source CRM You Actually Own

Self-Host Twenty: The Open-Source CRM You Actually Own

The moment that makes you hate your CRM is always the same. You add one more person to the team, the per-seat bill jumps again, and you realize you are paying a monthly rent that only ever goes up, for software that holds the single most valuable asset your

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 31, 2026. n8n AI Builder, Immich 3, Paperless-ngx 3.0.4

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 31, 2026. n8n AI Builder, Immich 3, Paperless-ngx 3.0.4

This was a patch-and-polish week across the self-hosted catalog. No dramatic launches, but two projects we care about shipped real upgrades, and a whole stack of tools you probably run pushed point releases worth taking. Here are the eight updates from the Elestio catalog that mattered this

Self-Host Presidio: Redact PII Before It Ever Reaches Your LLM

Self-Host Presidio: Redact PII Before It Ever Reaches Your LLM

I did the thing you're not supposed to do. A customer emailed us a support transcript, I wanted a quick summary, so I pasted the whole thing into a hosted LLM. Halfway through typing the prompt I noticed it: full name, email, a phone number, and the last

DBGate: One Database GUI for Your Whole Team

DBGate: One Database GUI for Your Whole Team

Every team has this setup, and every team pretends it is fine. One developer is on TablePlus, another swears by DataGrip, a third is SSHing into the box and running raw psql, and the new hire spent their first morning figuring out which VPN, which host, and which password gets