Why I self-host my websites, newsletter, and homelab—and the satisfaction that comes from building and using your own digital tools.
Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned)
A short story on why I still go through the effort of self hosting servers and some things it taught me recently.
Self-host an Organization | Bitwarden
This article will walk you through starting an organization on your self-hosted server.
Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own | Hacker News
Self-hosting doesn’t mean you have to buy hardware. After a few years, low-end machines are borderline unusable with Windows, but they are still plenty strong for a Linux server. It’s quite likely you or a friend has an old laptop laying around, which can be repurposed. I’ve done this with an i3 from 2011 [1] for two users, and in 2025 I have no signs that I need an upgrade.
Self-Hosting Guide to Alternatives: Notion
Self-hosted alternatives for the popular collaboration platform
Aaron Boodman on Twitter / X
There is this tension in dev tooling right now: Lots of people want to self-host, and not depend on a service. Lots of people also want the vibes of open source - being part of an open development community, having the code, etc.But builders still need to make a living...— Aaron Boodman (@aboodman) January 23, 2024
juliet shen likes being online
The first time I built my personal site, I coded it by hand. It was simple and maybe a little ugly, but I made it. The second time I built this site, I used AI so I can celebrate what I loved about the early web using technology born of the new web. It's pretty and I also made it.
Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS and using your domain as your handle
Rafael Eyng's tech blog
So, you want to start self-hosting? Part 1 - How to install Proxmox and pick your hardware.
The Condition of Giving
Why I'm building a gifting community on a network you actually own, and what that has to do with a couch, a geohash, and the open web.
Blog
For quite some time now, i have been working on and off on a fully self-hosted search engine, in hope to make it easier to search across Personal data in an end to end manner. Even as individuals, we are hoarding and generating more and more data with no end in sight. Such "personal" data is being stored from local hard-disks to corporate controlled cloud-centers which makes it distributed in nature. So for following discussion, "Personal" meaning would be flexible enough to accommodate resources on a remote server and/or on different devices, as long the user could prove authentication and/or authorization to that data. Current implementation supports only "images", but eventual goal is also to support other modalities like video, text and audio, some code would be shared, while some new code would be required to better extract Features for each modality.
Stacktracer's Dev Shrine
Surfing the IndieWeb is fun! Like many people my age (old millenial here, to be specific), I miss the Internet of the 90's and early 2000's. Until a couple of years age I thought it was gone for good. Luckily, I was wrong. The small web is all about non-corporate homepages and websites made by individuals. I won't go into details on why this is cool. For now, let me just point you in the right direction so you can see for yourself.
Why I use Caddy for every self-hosted service I run
It's got one killer feature that makes it easy to recommend
