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Documenso + Keycloak: Add Single Sign-On to Your Self-Hosted E-Signing

Documenso + Keycloak: Add Single Sign-On to Your Self-Hosted E-Signing

Documenso is great until your team grows past five people. Suddenly you are creating accounts one by one, resetting passwords, and praying that nobody puts a customer NDA behind a personal Gmail. Plug Documenso into Keycloak and that whole problem disappears. New hires get access on day one through the

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 22, 2026. Gitea CVE Hits 30K Servers, Percona Turns 20, Sway Adds HDR

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 22, 2026. Gitea CVE Hits 30K Servers, Percona Turns 20, Sway Adds HDR

Another week, another pile of news for anyone running their own infrastructure. This one was loaded. A four-year-old Gitea flaw left tens of thousands of container registries reading like an open book. Percona threw itself a 20th birthday party and announced a new MySQL foundation in the same

How to Set Up Wazuh for Self-Hosted SIEM and Threat Detection

How to Set Up Wazuh for Self-Hosted SIEM and Threat Detection

Splunk Enterprise starts at around $2,000 per GB ingested per year. For an SMB pushing 50 GB of logs a day, that math gets ugly fast. So when somebody asks me what to deploy when they need a real SIEM but don't have a Fortune 500 budget,

Gitea vs GitLab: Which Self-Hosted Git Server in 2026?

Gitea vs GitLab: Which Self-Hosted Git Server in 2026?

If you're shopping for a self-hosted Git server in 2026, the choice usually comes down to two: Gitea or GitLab. They sound similar on a feature checklist. They are not the same animal at all. I've run both in production for different teams, and I&

How to Replace LastPass with Vaultwarden

How to Replace LastPass with Vaultwarden

In December 2022, LastPass disclosed that attackers had stolen encrypted vault backups for roughly 30 million users. That was bad. What's worse — three years later, those stolen vaults are still being cracked. Over $438 million in cryptocurrency has been traced back to that single breach, with thefts still

Chatwoot vs Zulip vs Rocket.Chat: Which Self-Hosted Chat Platform for Your Team?

Chatwoot vs Zulip vs Rocket.Chat: Which Self-Hosted Chat Platform for Your Team?

Here's the thing nobody tells you when you're searching for "self-hosted Slack alternative": Chatwoot, Zulip, and Rocket.Chat show up in every list, but they're not the same kind of tool. Picking the wrong one means rebuilding your communication stack six

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 9, 2026. MinIO Is Dead, the Open Source Endowment Launches, and AI Slop Hits Maintainers

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 9, 2026. MinIO Is Dead, the Open Source Endowment Launches, and AI Slop Hits Maintainers

It's been a big week in the self-hosted world. MinIO, one of the most relied-upon S3-compatible storage solutions, got officially archived. A new nonprofit wants to throw $100M at open source funding. And AI-generated contributions are pushing maintainers to the breaking point. Here are

The Great SaaS Exodus: Why Companies Are Moving Entire Stacks to Self-Hosted in 2026

The Great SaaS Exodus: Why Companies Are Moving Entire Stacks to Self-Hosted in 2026

Something satisfying happened this year. A German state ditched Microsoft, a nonprofit told Slack to take a hike, and French schools banned Google Workspace. These aren't isolated incidents. They're symptoms of the same disease, and companies everywhere are finally reaching for the cure. The SaaS model

The Self-Hosting Market Is Exploding: $85.2B Projected by 2034 (What's Driving the Surge)

The Self-Hosting Market Is Exploding: $85.2B Projected by 2034 (What's Driving the Surge)

Every year, some analyst publishes a report about a "booming market" and everyone nods politely before forgetting about it. But this one caught my attention: the self-hosting market is projected to hit $85.2 billion by 2034, up from $15.6 billion in 2024. That's

Why Vector Databases Are the Missing Piece in Your Self-Hosted AI Stack

Why Vector Databases Are the Missing Piece in Your Self-Hosted AI Stack

You've probably heard the buzz about running your own AI. Maybe you've already got Ollama humming along on a spare machine, serving up Llama or Mistral models. You ask it questions, it gives you answers. Magic. But here's the thing: those local LLMs have

Open-Source Cybersecurity Tools Every Self-Hoster Should Know in 2026

Open-Source Cybersecurity Tools Every Self-Hoster Should Know in 2026

Running self-hosted services is one of the smartest moves a business or homelab enthusiast can make. But here's the uncomfortable truth most self-hosting guides skip over: every service you spin up is another attack surface. And if you're not actively protecting your infrastructure, you&

Digital Sovereignty in 2026: How EU Data Residency Laws Are Driving the Self-Hosting Boom

Digital Sovereignty in 2026: How EU Data Residency Laws Are Driving the Self-Hosting Boom

Something interesting is happening in European boardrooms right now. CTOs who spent the last decade moving everything to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are having uncomfortable conversations with their legal teams. The topic? Where their data actually lives. The Regulatory Tipping Point The EU's regulatory framework around data

Self-Hosting in 2026: Why the $85B Market Boom Changes Everything

Self-Hosting in 2026: Why the $85B Market Boom Changes Everything

Something interesting happened to the self-hosting market in 2026. It stopped being a niche hobby and became a legitimate business strategy. The numbers tell the story: the self-hosting market is projected to reach $85.2 billion by 2034, up from $15.6 billion in 2024. That's