Self-Hosted

A collection of 71 posts

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

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

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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

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,

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

Affine

AFFiNE 0.27: New Importers, Calendar View, and a Sync Warning

If you have ever tried to move years of notes out of Notion or Obsidian, you know the feeling. Your knowledge is right there, but it is locked inside someone else's app, and getting it out cleanly feels like defusing a bomb. AFFiNE has always pitched itself as

Self-Hosted

Self-Host Centrifugo: Real-Time Updates Without Pusher

A few years ago I lost the better part of a month to a "simple" live notifications feature. Just a little bell icon that lights up when something happens. How hard could it be? I wrote a WebSocket server, then spent the next two weeks fighting reconnections, dropped

AI

OpenHands: A Sandbox for Your Coding Agent, Not Your Laptop

Here's a question I kept dodging until it bit me: when your coding agent runs rm -rf, whose machine is it running on? For most of last year, the honest answer for me was "my laptop." I'd point Claude Code or the OpenHands agent

DevOps

Self-Host NATS: Lightweight Messaging for Your Apps and AI Agents

Every distributed system I've ever built started the same way: two services talking over HTTP. Then it's five services, each one hardcoding the others' URLs, and one restarts during a deploy while three callers time out. Suddenly you're bolting retry loops and circuit

DevOps

Self-Host Infisical: A Secrets Manager for Your Apps and Agents

Here's a confession: for years my idea of "secrets management" was a .env file that lived in three places, drifted out of sync in all of them, and occasionally got pasted into a Slack thread so a teammate could unblock themselves. Then someone rotates a database

DevOps

Self-Host Gotenberg: A PDF Rendering API for Your Apps and Agents

Sooner or later every app needs to spit out a PDF. An invoice, a monthly report, a signed contract, a receipt an AI agent just generated. And every time, you reach for the same cursed toolbox: bundle a headless Chrome into your container, or wrestle wkhtmltopdf, or npm-install Puppeteer

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Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 28, 2026. Ollama's $65M, Chatto Goes Open Source, Camel CVEs

Another week, another pile of releases, funding rounds, and CVEs to sort through. This week the money kept flowing into open-source AI, a genuinely nice self-hosted chat app dropped its source, and Apache Camel handed everyone a reason to patch on a Monday. Here are the eight stories

AI

Give Your AI Agent Private Web Search: Self-Host SearXNG

Here's a problem nobody warns you about until you hit it: the moment your AI agent needs to look something up on the web, you're suddenly on the hook for a search API. Google's Custom Search caps you at 100 free queries a day

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Self-Host Stirling-PDF: 50+ Private PDF Tools on Your Server

You need to merge two PDFs, or strip a password, or OCR a scanned contract. So you do what everyone does: you Google "merge PDF free," click the first result, and upload a document with your client's signature and bank details to a server you know

Keycloak

Inside Keycloak's Offline Tokens: How Long-Lived Sessions Actually Work

You're building a CLI tool. The user logs in once, your tool grabs a token, and then a few hours later everything breaks. The refresh token expired with the SSO session, and now your background job is asking the user to open a browser at 3 AM. This

GitLab

Self-Hosted GitLab + Elestio: Set Up CI/CD from Your Own Git

If your code lives on a self-hosted GitLab instance, deploying it to a managed platform usually means writing your own pipeline scripts, juggling SSH keys, or running a custom runner somewhere. Plenty of you have told us you don't want to mirror private repos to GitHub or

Paperless-ngx

Inside Paperless-ngx: How OCR + Tagging Actually Works When You Drop a PDF

You drop a PDF into a folder. Twenty seconds later it shows up in the UI with text you can search, tags that match the content, and a filename that looks like a human typed it. Most users never look at what happens in those twenty seconds. Today we do.

AI

LibreChat vs OpenWebUI vs Lobe Chat: Which to Self-Host in 2026?

You've decided you don't want your team's prompts (or your customers' chat history) sitting on someone else's GPU. Good call. Now comes the part nobody warns you about: picking a self-hosted ChatGPT clone is harder than picking the model behind

Open Source

Euro-Office vs OnlyOffice: The Fork That's Splitting the Self-Hosted Office World

On March 27, 2026, a coalition of nine European companies walked into the Bundestag in Berlin and announced they were forking OnlyOffice. The project is called Euro-Office, and it's already the most controversial thing to happen in the self-hosted office world since LibreOffice split from OpenOffice.

Paperless-ngx

Paperless-ngx on Elestio: Automating Document Ingestion, OCR Processing, and Smart Tagging

Paperless-ngx can ingest your documents. You already knew that. But most people stop at "drop PDF in folder, let OCR do its thing" and never touch the automation engine sitting right underneath. That's a mistake. The workflow system, matching algorithms, and storage path templates can