You have a few internal services on your homelab — a Home Assistant box, a Plex server, a TrueNAS UI, an Uptime Kuma dashboard. They all live on 192.168.1.x with random ports. You want to give them clean URLs (…
People build a homelab and immediately start with three drives, four NUCs, a 10GbE switch, Proxmox cluster — an installation that takes a weekend, costs $1,500, and breaks within a month because there’s too much to keep working. The home-server …
You have one personal VPS at a budget host, a NAS at home, and maybe a Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole. You want to reach all three from your laptop without exposing SSH on the public internet, without messing with port …
For internet-facing domains, Let’s Encrypt is the right answer. But the moment you have a homelab service running on a .local domain, on a private subnet, or behind Tailscale — Let’s Encrypt either doesn’t work (HTTP-01 needs public reachability) or …
You’ve installed a content blocker on every browser. The phone in your pocket has a half-dozen apps that show ads anyway. The smart TV in the living room shows ads on the home screen with no user-facing way to turn …
You want to share a thing on your home server with someone outside your house. Maybe you wrote a small status page, or you want a friend to grab a file, or you’re showing a client a Caddy-served Astro preview. …
Plex used to be the answer for “I have a hard drive full of movies and want to watch them on my TV.” Then Plex started showing ads, requiring sign-in, gating features behind subscriptions, and breaking the offline path. Jellyfin …
You’ve bought into one smart-home ecosystem — Hue lights, or SmartThings hub, or Apple HomeKit — and now every new device you consider has to be compatible with that brand. Three years in, you’ve also accumulated a Wyze camera, a …
You decided to leave Google Photos. Either iCloud’s $2.99 plan ran out of space, the AI-summary features finally crossed your threshold, or you just got tired of paying rent on your own family photos. The two self-hosted answers worth seriously …