Self-hosting

01

9 min read

Building a near real-time topic monitoring system on a VPS

Self-hosted monitoring system on a VPS that aggregates RSS feeds, filters by keywords, scores and summarizes each article via an LLM, then pushes results to Slack. With multi-layer deduplication and web page change detection.

02

13 min read

Internet censorship: technical solutions to stay connected

When a government blocks social media, there are technical solutions to bypass censorship. From a simple DNS change to a self-hosted VPN, an overview of methods ranked by difficulty.

03

21 min read

Sovereign VPN: Setting up your own server with Headscale in Switzerland

In this second part, we set up a self-hosted VPN with Headscale and an anti-censorship VLESS+Reality proxy (Xray) on a Swiss VPS. Both services share port 443 through nginx SNI routing.

04

6 min read

NAS monitoring: watching disks, services and logs at a glance

Deploying Uptime Kuma, Scrutiny, Dozzle and Homepage on a Debian NAS to monitor disk health, service availability and Docker logs.

05

6 min read

Managing photos with self-hosted Immich

Deploying Immich on a Debian NAS as a self-hosted Google Photos alternative, with facial recognition, AI search and external libraries.

06

6 min read

Building a complete media center with Jellyfin and the *arr stack

Deploying Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr and Jellyseerr on a Debian NAS for a fully self-hosted media center.