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How to Get a Static or Public IP From Your ISP and the Alternatives

The simplest way to get a public or static IP is to ask your ISP…

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Paperless-ngx for a Self-Hosted Document Archive

Paperless-ngx is a self-hosted document archive that watches a folder, runs optical character recognition on…

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SNMP Monitoring at Home: Per-Port Switch Visibility

SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol — is the oldest, lightest way to pull metrics…

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Sizing Storage for 24/7 Camera Recording

Sizing storage for 24/7 camera recording comes down to one formula: bitrate in megabits per…

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IPv6 Prefix Delegation: Getting a Subnet From Your ISP for Each VLAN

IPv6 prefix delegation home setups live or die on one number: the size of the…

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Immich: Self-Hosting a Google Photos Replacement

Immich is a self-hosted photo and video library that reproduces the Google Photos features you…

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Vaultwarden: Your Own Bitwarden-Compatible Vault

Vaultwarden is a lightweight, Rust-based server that implements the Bitwarden API, so the official Bitwarden…

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Failover vs High Availability: What Home Needs

Failover and high availability solve different problems, and confusing them is the most expensive planning…

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Wi-Fi 7 vs 2.5G Ethernet: When Wireless Finally Saturates Your Wire

Wi-Fi 7 close-range throughput now lands around 1.5 to 2 Gbps in my testing, which…

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Cloudflare edge network compared with a self-managed VPS fronting a home network

Cloudflare Tunnel vs a VPS Reverse Proxy for Exposing Home Services

For exposing home services, a Cloudflare Tunnel is the fastest and cheapest route for web…

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Best LTE/5G Modems for a Failover WAN

The best modem for a failover WAN is the cheapest device that supports bridge mode,…

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Nextcloud vs Seafile vs OwnCloud for File Sync

Nextcloud, Seafile, and OwnCloud all self-host your files but answer different questions. Seafile chunks files…

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