Self-Hosted

A collection of 61 posts

object-storage

MinIO Is in Maintenance Mode: Your Guide to S3-Compatible Storage Alternatives

If you've been running MinIO in production, you probably felt a chill run down your spine in December 2025. The project quietly entered maintenance mode. No fanfare, no migration guide, just a commit to the README and a locked GitHub issue with 29 thumbs-down reactions. Here'

AI

MoltBot Just Broke the Internet: Deploy Your Own AI Assistant in Minutes

You've probably seen it everywhere this week. Your Twitter feed. Hacker News. That one Slack channel where the senior dev posts "interesting stuff." MoltBot just gained 9,000 GitHub stars in a single day, and Andrej Karpathy himself gave it a public endorsement. People are calling

Zammad

Why Businesses Are Switching from Zendesk to Zammad (And Saving Thousands)

If you've ever watched your Zendesk bill climb higher each time you add a new support agent, you're not alone. Customer service software has become one of the most expensive line items for growing businesses, and many teams are starting to question whether they're

Mastodon

The Fediverse Is Growing: Why Decentralized Social Media Matters in 2026

Something interesting happened in 2024. When Twitter became X and started charging for features that used to be free, millions of users didn't just complain. They left. But they didn't all go to the same place. Some went to Bluesky. Others joined Threads. But a growing

Paperless-ngx

Paperless-ngx + S3: Build a Searchable Document Archive with OCR and Automated Tagging

Every organization has a document problem. Invoices pile up. Contracts get lost in email threads. That receipt you need for the tax audit? Somewhere in a folder called "Misc 2024." Paperless-ngx solves this by turning your documents into a searchable, tagged archive with full-text OCR. Add

Authentik

Authentik vs Authelia vs Keycloak: Choosing the Right Self-Hosted Identity Provider in 2026

If you're self-hosting applications in 2026, you've probably hit the authentication wall. Every app wants its own login. Your users are drowning in passwords. And you're one data breach away from a very bad week. The solution is an identity provider: a central

Headless CMS

The Headless CMS Revolution: Why Enterprises Are Taking Back Control of Their Content

Enterprise content teams are having an uncomfortable realization: they don't actually own their content. Sure, they pay for it. They create it. They publish it. But when that content lives on a SaaS platform's servers, subject to their terms of service and pricing whims, "ownership&

Guacamole

Guacamole + LDAP: Set Up Secure Remote Access for Your Entire Team

Remote access is one of those problems that sounds simple until you're managing 50 employees who all need to connect to different machines. TeamViewer wants $50/user/month. AnyDesk's pricing is a mystery. And your security team keeps asking about audit logs. Apache Guacamole solves this

Airflow

Why Your Business Needs Workflow Automation (And How Airflow Replaces Expensive Tools)

Your team probably runs dozens of repetitive tasks every week. Someone exports a report from one system, reformats it, and uploads it to another. Someone else checks if yesterday's data sync completed, then sends a Slack message to confirm. Another person manually triggers the same sequence of API

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ + Node.js: Build Resilient Event-Driven Microservices with Dead Letter Queues

Message processing fails. It happens. A downstream API times out, a database connection drops, or your code hits an edge case nobody anticipated. The question is: what happens to that message? Without proper error handling, failed messages either disappear forever or block your entire queue. Dead Letter Queues solve this

Discourse

Discourse + SSO: Implement Single Sign-On with OAuth2 and OIDC

Managing separate logins for your community forum is a headache nobody asked for. Your users already have accounts in your main app, your CRM, or your identity provider. Making them create yet another password for Discourse is friction you can eliminate. Discourse ships with solid SSO support out of the

Taiga

Why Your Team Should Ditch Jira for Taiga

Your project management tool shouldn't cost more than some of your team members. But if you're running Jira for a growing team, you've probably noticed the bills climbing faster than your sprint velocity. Here's the uncomfortable math: Jira Standard runs $7.91/

Apache Superset

Apache Superset + PostgreSQL: Build Executive Dashboards Your Team Will Actually Use

Your company has data. Probably a lot of it. And somewhere, someone is asking for "a dashboard" to make sense of it all. The problem? Tableau costs $70/user/month, and you have a perfectly good PostgreSQL database sitting there, full of insights nobody can access without writing

Self-Hosted

The 2026 Homelab Stack: What Self-Hosters Are Actually Running This Year

Spend five minutes on r/selfhosted or any homelab forum and you'll notice something interesting: the conversations have changed. Two years ago, everyone was asking "what should I run?" Now they're sharing sophisticated stacks that rival small business infrastructure. The self-hosting movement has

Appwrite

The Rise of Open-Source Backend Platforms: Firebase, Supabase, and Appwrite Compared

Something interesting happened in backend development over the past two years. Firebase, once the default choice for startups building their first app, started losing ground to open-source alternatives. Not because Firebase stopped working, but because developers realized they were trading convenience for control. The shift tells a bigger story

Comparison

Elestio vs Railway vs Render vs Fly.io: Which Platform Actually Fits Your Needs?

If you're looking to deploy applications in 2025, you've probably stumbled across Railway, Render, and Fly.io. They're everywhere in developer discussions, and for good reason. They promise easy deployments, git-push workflows, and that sweet "it just works" experience. But here&

NocoDB

Why Your Team Should Replace Spreadsheets with NocoDB (And Save Hours Every Week)

Somewhere in your company right now, there's a spreadsheet causing problems. Maybe it's the customer list that three people edited simultaneously and now has duplicate rows. Maybe it's the project tracker that grew so complex nobody remembers which formulas depend on what. Or maybe

Uptime Kuma

Why Every Small Business Needs Uptime Monitoring (And How Uptime Kuma Makes It Affordable)

Your website goes down at 2 PM on a Tuesday. You find out three hours later when a customer emails asking why they can't place an order. By then, you've lost sales, frustrated customers, and damaged trust you spent months building. This happens to small businesses

BookStack

Why Your Team Needs a Knowledge Base (And How BookStack Makes It Simple)

Every company has the same problem: knowledge scattered across random Google Docs, outdated Notion pages, and that one Slack message from six months ago that nobody can find. When an employee leaves, they take half the company's knowledge with them. When a new hire joins, they spend weeks

Jitsi

Why Your Business Should Own Its Video Calls (And How Jitsi Makes It Affordable)

Video calls have become the backbone of modern business. Team standups, client presentations, job interviews, board meetings. If your company went remote or hybrid in the past few years, you probably spend hours each week on Zoom or Microsoft Teams. But here's something worth thinking about: every conversation

Development

Gitea Actions: Build Your Own GitHub-Like CI/CD Pipeline Without the Price Tag

GitHub Actions changed how teams think about CI/CD. But at $4 per user per month (and that's just for the Team plan), the costs add up fast. For a 20-person team, you're looking at $960/year before you even run a single pipeline. Here&

Development

Why Your Business Needs Single Sign-On (And How Authentik Makes It Affordable)

Your employees are drowning in passwords. The average worker manages credentials for 70-80 different applications—and that number keeps growing. The result? Sticky notes with passwords, repeated credentials across services, and IT tickets for forgotten logins that never seem to stop. This isn't just an annoyance. It&

Applications

Outline: The Open-Source Notion Alternative Your Team Actually Needs

Your team's knowledge is scattered everywhere. Meeting notes in Google Docs, project specs in Notion, onboarding guides in random Slack threads, and that critical process document... somewhere in someone's email? This is the reality for most growing teams. And honestly? Notion and Confluence were supposed to

Immich

Immich API: Build Custom Photo Workflows and Automate Your Library

I didn't think I'd care about a photo management API. Then I realized my family has 50,000 photos scattered across devices, and Google's AI is training on every single one of them. Immich changed that. It's a self-hosted Google Photos

Slack

We Calculated How Much Slack Actually Costs—Then Found Two Alternatives That Save Teams $15,000/Year

We Calculated How Much Slack Actually Costs—Then Found Two Alternatives That Save Teams $15,000/Year Your CFO just sent that email again. "Can we talk about our software costs?" You know what's coming. Slack is eating 15% of your SaaS budget, and it'