Mesh VPN for a Home Network: When You Need One
A mesh VPN lets your devices form direct encrypted links to each other instead of funnelling every connection through one…
Category: Self-Hosting & Services
Self-hosting guides: Docker, Proxmox, reverse proxies, Home Assistant, media servers, and the apps that run on a homelab.
DNS Failover and Redundancy for a Home Network
Build DNS redundancy that holds: two filtering resolvers and how client failover actually behaves.
Per-Device VPN Policy for a Home Network
A per-device VPN policy means every device that connects gets its own identity, its own routing, and its own set…
DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS: A Home Setup Guide
Encrypt home DNS with DoH and DoT, plus how to stop clients bypassing your resolver.
Self-Hosted Read-It-Later Bookmarks: Linkding vs Wallabag
Linkding is a lightweight, self-hosted bookmark manager and Wallabag is a self-hosted read-it-later service that fetches and stores article text…
VPN Split Tunneling Guide for a Home Network
Split tunneling sends only your home-network traffic through the VPN and lets everything else go out the local connection directly.…
Remote Access to Your Home Network: A Practical Guide
The right way to reach your home network from outside is to put everything behind one encrypted front door —…
Self-Hosted Calendar and Contacts: Radicale vs Baikal
Radicale and Baikal are both CalDAV and CardDAV servers, which means they speak the standard protocols every phone and desktop…
Testing Inbound Reachability: Port Checks, Hairpin NAT, and What ‘Open’ Really Means
Test if a port is open on your home network the right way, from outside, with what open, closed, and…
Self-Hosted Notes: Joplin vs Obsidian vs Trilium
Joplin Server, Obsidian Sync, and Trilium answer three different questions about self-hosted notes: Joplin Server is a self-hostable sync backend…