NixOS is making me less afraid(entropicthoughts.com)
140 points by ibobev | 138 comments
A blog post on Entropic Thoughts about how using NixOS makes the author less afraid to try and self-host software like FreshRSS.
#self-hosting on Hacker News
115 stories tagged self-hosting, newest first.
Shipping a LaTeX Compiler Behind an Edge App(bhargav.dev)
9 points by brgv | 4 comments
Blog post explaining how the author deployed a Tectonic-based LaTeX compilation service behind an edge-hosted app to generate PDFs, covering security and hosting choices.
Show HN: OneDeploy – Managed open-source apps with nightly backups and TLS(onedeploy.co)
18 points by relatedcode | 11 comments
Landing page for OneDeploy, a service that provisions dedicated servers running any of 88 open-source apps with TLS certificates and nightly backups, from $32/month.
What I self-host(viceconsole.fyi)
607 points by BrunoBernardino | 385 comments
Personal blog post describing which services the author self-hosts, which they don't, and why, motivated partly by leaving streaming services.
Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free(petal.live)
197 points by thedracle | 39 comments
Landing page for Petal, a free open-source pair programming app with low-latency screen sharing and remote control for macOS and Windows, from the makers of CoScreen.
Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
372 points by mariocesar | 601 comments
Ask HN discussion thread asking what services people find worth running 24/7 on a cheap $5 VPS or mini PC.
Show HN: Durable Actors – OSS Durable Objects with configurable compute(github.com)
27 points by thomask1995 | 20 comments
GitHub repository for Durable Actors, an MIT-licensed open-source TypeScript alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects with per-actor SQLite and configurable compute.
My Homelab Two Years Later, Every Upgrade and What It Cost(joekarlsson.com)
12 points by joekarlsson | 7 comments
A personal blog post by Joe Karlsson reviewing his homelab two years on, detailing each upgrade and its cost.
Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx(vincent.bernat.ch)
158 points by renehsz | 34 comments
Vincent Bernat's blog post explaining how to build self-hosted HTTP tunnels to expose a local server using a plain SSH client and nginx.
Everyone's Packing Up(widdershins.verja.net)
86 points by speckx | 69 comments
A personal blog post reflecting on the trend of people leaving platforms like Reddit, WordPress, and GitHub for smaller, self-hosted spaces and the smallweb.
Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server(pipod.dev)
98 points by edverma2 | 39 comments
Landing page for pi pod, an open-source tool that runs pi coding agent sessions in isolated sandboxes on a self-hosted server, with a waitlist for a hosted service.
What Sentry's 16GB selfhosted taught me(epure.sh)
6 points by nonmaskable | 6 comments
Blog post from Epure on Sentry's 16GB RAM self-hosting requirement, presenting Epure as a lightweight Rust and Postgres exception-ingest alternative using about 53 MiB.
Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC(git.mills.io)
306 points by davidcollantes | 169 comments
Git repository page for Parley, a federated, decentralised chat system that is compatible with plain IRC clients; the page returned an HTTP 429 error.
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web(david.alvarezrosa.com)
324 points by mooreds | 106 comments
Blog post by David Álvarez Rosa describing making his personal website available over Tor as a .onion hidden service.
Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store(github.com)
65 points by handfuloflight | 8 comments
GitHub repository for walgit, a single-binary Git server serving smart HTTP from an object-store bucket with a GitHub Enterprise Server facade.
HomelabFest will be in St. Louis in September 2027(homelabfest.org)
63 points by geerlingguy | 36 comments
Website for HomelabFest, a self-hosting and homelab event held September 12–14, 2027 in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Economics of Open-Weight Inference(data.ornn.com)
36 points by marinesebastian | 25 comments
Ornn Data research paper arguing that open-weight model demand extends the economic useful life of older NVIDIA GPU families, comparing inference costs to closed models.
Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin(robertmay.photography)
23 points by robotmay | 15 comments
A blog post on robertmay.photography about Bwbach, apparently a self-built anti-bot guard; the capture shows only its security verification interstitial.
Jellyfin 12.0(jellyfin.org)
526 points by 0xC0ncord | 249 comments
Jellyfin blog post announcing the 12.0 stable release, covering database conversion completion, performance work, and improved book and comic support.
Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone(cloudinabottle.org)
597 points by zplizzi | 294 comments
Launch blog post introducing Cloud in a Bottle, an open-source personal cloud with containerized apps, unified auth, and an app catalog for easy self-hosting.
Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns(codeberg.org)
687 points by Cider9986 | 359 comments
A Codeberg wiki page listing working, rate-limited, and taken-down instances of Nitter, the alternative Twitter/X front-end.
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
586 points by dhruv3006 | 368 comments
Ask HN thread asking whether to switch from GitHub due to recent outages, with commenters suggesting alternatives like Forgejo and GitLab.
My server is a phone now(seg6.space)
460 points by seg6 | 224 comments
Blog post about rooting a CMF Phone 1 and using Termux to run personal home server infrastructure on it.
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X(github.com)
366 points by zhoutong | 88 comments
GitHub repository with patches, tuning files, and config for running DeepSeek V4 Flash on a single AMD MI300X GPU.
Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting(runtimewire.com)
359 points by ryanmerket | 315 comments
News article on Block's Buzz, a self-hostable workspace from Jack Dorsey combining team chat, AI agents and Git hosting built on signed Nostr events.
How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)(neil.computer)
327 points by 4diii | 220 comments
A blog note explaining how to set up a minimal ZFS-based NAS and share a dataset over the network with Samba instead of using Synology, QNAP, or TrueNAS.
Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally(github.com)
390 points by livestyle | 175 comments
GitHub repository by jamesob collecting notes, runners, and tools for running state-of-the-art LLMs locally.
.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting(hccf.onmy.cloud)
649 points by HumanCCF | 362 comments
A blog post from HCCF proposing .self, a new human-centered top-level domain intended to support self-hosting; the page failed to load with an upstream connection error.
My Homelab AI Dev Platform(rsgm.dev)
347 points by rsgm | 54 comments
A personal blog post describing the author's homelab platform where AI coding agents like opencode push branches and open pull requests to a self-hosted git forge.
Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
1195 points by cloudking | 501 comments
Ask HN thread asking whether anyone has fully replaced Claude or GPT with a locally run model for daily coding, and what hardware and token speeds they get.
A 10 year old Xeon is all you need(point.free)
659 points by cafkafk | 266 comments
Blog post about running Google's Gemma 4 language model locally on a 2016-era Intel Xeon server.
Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD(crocidb.com)
353 points by speckx | 214 comments
Personal blog post describing migrating a blog from a decade-old Ubuntu 16.04 DigitalOcean VPS to a cheaper FreeBSD virtual machine on Hetzner.
Was my $48K GPU server worth it?(rosmine.ai)
540 points by apwheele | 417 comments
A personal ML blog post on Rosmine assessing whether building a $48K multi-GPU server was worth the cost.
Leaving GitHub for Forgejo(jorijn.com)
553 points by jorijn | 289 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author moved code from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance, citing ownership concerns and the Dutch government's similar move.
I moved my digital stack to Europe(monokai.com)
908 points by monokai_nl | 540 comments
A personal blog post by Monokai's creator describing how he moved his digital services and cloud stack to European providers for digital sovereignty.
Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?(distr.sh)
396 points by pmig | 275 comments
Distr blog post by co-founder Philip Miglinci on running plain Docker Compose in production, covering cleanup, healing, image pinning, socket security and updates.
Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers(colaptop.pages.dev)
358 points by argentum47 | 212 comments
Landing page for CoLaptop, an Amsterdam-based service offering colocation of old laptops as always-online servers in US and European datacenters with Hetzner.
Migrating to the EU(rz01.org)
836 points by exitnode | 640 comments
A personal blog post describing the author's move of services and subscriptions from non-EU providers to European ones for political and data protection reasons.
Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline(projectnomad.us)
563 points by jensgk | 204 comments
Landing page for Project N.O.M.A.D., a free open-source system for running Wikipedia, AI, maps, and education tools offline on your own hardware.
My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)(community.home-assistant.io)
404 points by Vaslo | 128 comments
Home Assistant community forum post describing a user's setup of a fully local voice assistant using Home Assistant Assist and llama.cpp, replacing Google Home.
Discord Alternatives, Ranked(taggart-tech.com)
603 points by pseudalopex | 374 comments
A blog post ranking alternatives to Discord for online community chat, opening with a distracted-boyfriend meme comparing Discord to another chat app.
Don't rent the cloud, own instead(blog.comma.ai)
1144 points by Torq_boi | 471 comments
A comma.ai blog post describing how the company runs its own $5M in-office data center for model training, metrics, and data instead of renting cloud.
CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun(fulghum.io)
711 points by websku | 483 comments
Blog post arguing that CLI agents like Claude Code make running a self-hosted home server easier and fun, even for non-sysadmins.
Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust(openworkers.com)
474 points by max_lt | 145 comments
Announcement page for OpenWorkers, an open-source Rust runtime for running untrusted JavaScript in V8 isolates as self-hosted Cloudflare Workers.
FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service(it-notes.dragas.net)
365 points by birdculture | 87 comments
Blog post on IT Notes describing how FediMeteo, a fediverse weather service, runs on a small €4 FreeBSD VPS serving thousands of followers.
A guide to local coding models(aiforswes.com)
551 points by mpweiher | 304 comments
A Substack newsletter post guiding software engineers on running local coding models as an alternative to paying for Claude Code, covering tooling and setup steps.
Go ahead, self-host Postgres(pierce.dev)
635 points by pavel_lishin | 373 comments
A blog post on pierce.dev arguing that self-hosting PostgreSQL is a reasonable alternative to managed database services.
Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters(garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr)
681 points by ibobev | 155 comments
Homepage of Garage, an open-source S3-compatible distributed object store designed for self-hosting outside datacenters.
I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero(blog.jakesaunders.dev)
565 points by jakelsaunders94 | 356 comments
Personal blog post by Jake Saunders describing how his Hetzner server was hacked and began mining Monero cryptocurrency.
Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s(uncloud.run)
367 points by rgun | 156 comments
Landing page for Uncloud, a tool for deploying Docker Compose apps across multiple servers with zero-downtime deploys and automatic HTTPS, without Kubernetes.
Migrating Dillo from GitHub(dillo-browser.org)
400 points by todsacerdoti | 199 comments
A news post by Dillo maintainer Rodrigo Arias Mallo explaining why the Dillo browser project is moving from GitHub to a self-hosted server with mirrors on other forges.
Self-hosting my photos with Immich(michael.stapelberg.ch)
609 points by birdculture | 341 comments
Michael Stapelberg's blog post describing how he set up Immich as a self-hosted replacement for Google Photos, covering hardware, installation, iPhone app, and backups.
So you wanna build a local RAG?(blog.yakkomajuri.com)
367 points by pedriquepacheco | 97 comments
Blog post describing how the Skald team built a fully local, self-hosted RAG stack using open-source components, with benchmarks versus proprietary APIs.
How to repurpose your old phone into a web server(far.computer)
326 points by louismerlin | 110 comments
A tutorial on turning an old Android phone into a small home web server by installing postmarketOS, written on a page hosted on a 2015 Fairphone 2.
I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars(rameerez.com)
404 points by sebnun | 343 comments
Blog post by indie maker rameerez arguing against cloud hosting and describing moving his projects off the cloud to save thousands of dollars.
Why Nextcloud feels slow to use(ounapuu.ee)
407 points by rpgbr | 310 comments
Blog post examining why Nextcloud's web interface feels slow, pointing to large JavaScript payloads and long load times shown in browser devtools.
Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again(jsteuernagel.de)
376 points by todsacerdoti | 148 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author switched to FreeBSD to make self-hosting enjoyable again after feeling burned out on their previous setup.
AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS(oneuptime.com)
636 points by ndhandala | 432 comments
OneUptime blog post revisiting its AWS-to-bare-metal migration two years later, sharing updated numbers and answering questions from Hacker News and Reddit.
You already have a Git server(maurycyz.com)
596 points by chmaynard | 393 comments
Blog post explaining that any server with SSH access can host git repositories, showing how to clone over SSH and allow pushes to the checked-out branch.
Google flags Immich sites as dangerous(immich.app)
1331 points by janpio | 560 comments
Immich blog post explaining how Google Safe Browsing flagged all *.immich.cloud sites as dangerous, showing users the red warning page.
Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server(disco.cloud)
730 points by jryio | 492 comments
A Disco blog case study on how Idealist.org replaced roughly $3,000/month of Heroku staging environments with a single $55/month server.
The email they shouldn't have read(it-notes.dragas.net)
345 points by miniBill | 142 comments
A blog post on the IT Notes site recounting an incident involving an email that unauthorized parties read, touching on email privacy and server administration.
Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release(github.com)
432 points by Alexvb | 126 comments
GitHub Discussions announcement of Immich v2.0.0, the first stable release of the self-hosted photo and video management app.
Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS(blog.6nok.org)
367 points by frontsideair | 241 comments
A personal blog post by a self-described LLM skeptic explaining how to download and run large language models locally on a Mac.
Serverless Horrors(serverlesshorrors.com)
539 points by operator-name | 399 comments
ServerlessHorrors is a blog collecting horror stories about serverless platforms, such as surprise cloud bills, made by the creator of Coolify.
This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)(blog.ctms.me)
326 points by indigodaddy | 137 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author hosts his blog on a recycled, carrier-locked Google Pixel 5 Android phone used as a low-power server.
I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace(instavm.io)
981 points by mkagenius | 261 comments
A blog post describing how the author built a fully local, offline AI workspace with LLM chat and code execution, with no cloud dependency.
Cursed Knowledge(immich.app)
392 points by bqmjjx0kac | 119 comments
Immich project page listing "cursed knowledge": surprising bugs and quirks in tools and platforms the developers ran into while building the photo app.
Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting(lazyadmin.nl)
363 points by speckx | 285 comments
A LazyAdmin article covering Ubiquiti's Early Access release of UniFi OS Server, with requirements and download links for self-hosting the UniFi network stack.
The future is not self-hosted(drewlyton.com)
417 points by drew_lytle | 367 comments
Blog post by Drew Lyton arguing that self-hosting is not the future of personal computing and data ownership.
Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts(it-notes.dragas.net)
332 points by Bogdanp | 103 comments
Blog post on IT Notes, first in a series on building your own backup system, focusing on planning a backup strategy before writing scripts.
My Self-Hosting Setup(codecaptured.com)
513 points by mirdaki | 178 comments
A personal blog post from the Code Captured blog, dated July 7, 2025, describing the author's self-hosting setup.
My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server(terminalbytes.com)
422 points by hemant6488 | 177 comments
A blog post describing how the author repurposed an old iPhone 8 into a solar-powered OCR server using Apple's Vision framework and an EcoFlow River 2 Pro.
Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own(ssp.sh)
468 points by articsputnik | 216 comments
A personal blog post by Simon Späti about self-hosting his blog, second brain, newsletter and other tools to gain independence from tech platforms.
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube(jeffgeerling.com)
1473 points by DavideNL | 636 comments
Jeff Geerling blog post about receiving a second YouTube community guidelines strike for a video demonstrating LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5 for 4K playback.
A server that wasn't meant to exist(it-notes.dragas.net)
377 points by jaypatelani | 121 comments
A post on the IT Notes blog recounting the story of a server that was never supposed to exist.
Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)(blog.yaakov.online)
409 points by birdculture | 300 comments
A blog post on Yaakov's Blog describing replacing a Kubernetes setup with systemd for running containers.
Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii(blog.infected.systems)
575 points by edent | 101 comments
Blog post by Alex Haydock describing how his blog is served from a real Nintendo Wii running NetBSD, with a link to a live status page.
Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative(coppolaemilio.com)
414 points by coppolaemilio | 437 comments
A personal blog post by Emi describing leaving Spotify and using self-hosted Jellyfin as a music streaming alternative.
Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution(emilygorcenski.com)
330 points by ColinWright | 122 comments
Blog post by Emily Gorcenski describing how she set up and integrated a self-hosted CalDAV calendar server behind nginx, the first in a series on owning personal data.
Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative(coolify.io)
346 points by vanschelven | 149 comments
Homepage of Coolify, an open-source, self-hostable platform positioned as an alternative to Heroku, Netlify and Vercel, with cloud and self-hosted options.
Tailscale is pretty useful(blog.6nok.org)
736 points by marban | 353 comments
Personal blog post describing the author's experience starting to use Tailscale to access a simple server running on an old Raspberry Pi 1.
Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server(xmox.nl)
493 points by yamrzou | 271 comments
Homepage for Mox, an open source, MIT-licensed all-in-one email server written in Go supporting IMAP, SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and webmail.
Pi-hole v6(pi-hole.net)
482 points by tkuraku | 237 comments
Pi-hole blog post announcing the release of Pi-hole v6, the open-source network-wide DNS ad blocker.
Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System(jellyfin.org)
396 points by doener | 237 comments
Homepage of Jellyfin, a volunteer-built free software media server for streaming your own media to any device.
Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget(ewintr.nl)
339 points by marban | 203 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author built a budget computer for running AI models locally and privately.
Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig(gist.github.com)
322 points by todsacerdoti | 237 comments
A GitHub Gist by Richard Feldman explaining why the Roc programming language's compiler is being rewritten from Rust in Zig.
Why we use our own hardware(fastmail.com)
780 points by nmjenkins | 428 comments
Fastmail blog post by founder and CTO Rob Mueller explaining why the company runs its own hardware instead of using public cloud providers.
Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%(bilbof.com)
335 points by BillFranklin | 186 comments
Blog post by Bill Franklin describing moving Kubernetes infrastructure to Hetzner and cutting hosting costs by about 75%.
Llama.cpp guide – Running LLMs locally on any hardware, from scratch(steelph0enix.github.io)
318 points by zarekr | 60 comments
A long blog guide on building and running llama.cpp to run large language models locally on various hardware, from scratch.