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Why Run Your Own Music Streaming Server? I've been an iTunes user for more than a decade, in fact going on two decades now.  I liked it, and still like it somewhat, but with the move to split everything out, the interface is painful to me.  Getting music to...

Encrypted messaging has become a hot mess of one off platforms, and painful setups over the past 10 to 15 years.  Before that, everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, used a standardized protocol that was awesome, and still is.  XMPP was used by Microsoft, Yahoo, Exc...

Proxmox is an excellent, powerful, and sophisticated Virtualization Operating System built on Linux.  It's Open Source, and, of course, self hosted.   I know I usually cover Docker based apps for virtualization, but there are benefits to being able to instal...

I've covered NGinX Proxy Manager, a web GUI for NGinX Web Server in multiple videos.  I essentially use it anytime I want to give a web site a public URL with Ssl encryption (so basically always).   One of the questions I get fairly often is about how to Se...

What's NginX? NginX (pronounced Engine-X) is a web-server, and reverse proxy.  Basically, it can serve up web pages, and can provide a proxy service for incoming web requests.  It all sounds a bit generic, but that's because it is.  NginX can serve web page...

We'll be taking a small series adventure into the world of TrueNAS.  I'll be starting with TrueNAS core (formerly FreeNAS).  If you've never heard of TrueNAS(or FreeNAS), then let me explain a bit. Truenas is a self hosted Network Attached Storage solution. ...

This is where I post my almost annual information regarding which open source software I actually use on a day to day basis. The list changes from year to year, and I think it's good for you all to see that I don't just preach open source, but I try to live ...

Backing up your application data regardless of how you run it is one of the most vital things you'll need to do as a self-hoster, a system administrator, or just a daily user of software.  The topic is vast, and full of amazing options, and amazing softwar...

I'm a pretty big fan of the Fediverse. I'm not a massive social media person beyond Youtube, but I'm just really kind of done with Facebook, Twitter, and even Reddit is starting to rub me the wrong way lately.  It's truly not the politics that bother me. I'm...

Viseron is fairly new to the open source options for NVRs as of the writing of this article.  It's got a good set of features available, but definitely still young.  Pros Fairly simple to get running in docker. Works with RTSP based cameras and MJpeg st...

Introduction to this Project A brief note about this setup.: This setup is for a more complex layout with a home of about 3000 sq fet (280 sq m) in size, along with an outside (disconnected) office of 180 sq ft (17 sq m) in size, approximately 30 ft (10 m...

A server to send notifications triggered by time, events, etc from your various systems. What you'll need Docker-CE Docker-Compose (Optional but recommended) A domain name with an A-record pointed to your public IP (Optional but recommended) NGinX Pro...

What You'll Need A host server or machine (VM or LXC / LXD Container) Docker-CE and Docker Compose installed NGinX Proxy Manager, or a reverse proxy you prefer to use A domain name / sub-domain that you own and can create A-records for The Ability to ...

What you'll need A VPS is HIGHLY recommended, that gives you a public IP address and control over the firewall Also, to make this very easy, I recommend a debian based distro. A Domain name for your server which you control the A-Records for About 15 m...

Open  Project is a business grade tool for keeping track of project goals, objectives, activities, assignments, and completions toward any project that may help benefit your business.  The project has been more recently adapted to also work quite well as a p...

Last year I started thinking about making this little gadget to let me know when the postal worker drops my mail in the box.  My mailbox is about 40 ft (~13 m) from my front door, and down a hill, so my Ring doorbell doesn't always catch it when it's dropped...

Self hosted dashboards are incredibly useful for a myriad of reasons.  They provide quick access to all of your self hosted services, quick links to bookmarks of your most used online sites and services, and can offer some very useful monitoring information ...

Getting your music collection tagged properly, and finding the album art was a tedious, manual process for many years, but also a source of pride in owning a well defined digital music collection.  Today it's been made much easier thanks to tools like MusicB...

Sometimes you just need a writing tool that will allow you to get to work.  Not something that will take you hours of setup and configuration, and theming, and layout, and on, and on, andon....  My friends, WriteFreely is an open source, self hosted platform...

If you've been following my channel on YouTube, or my articles here for any amount of time, you probably know that I really love Docker as a means to self host pretty much anything.  While docker is an amazing tool, many of your have been on this journey of ...