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    6 articles tagged Self-Hosting, newest first.

    Tailscale
    VPN
    Networking
    Homelab
    Self-Hosting

    What People Actually Use Tailscale For, From NAS to Hockey Abroad

    Real Tailscale uses: NAS access from anywhere, exit nodes for sports blackouts, private media streaming, homelabs and remote sites without port forwarding.

    February 7, 2026
    8 min read
    Proxmox
    VDI
    Kasm
    Citrix
    Virtualization
    Self-Hosting

    Kasm Workspaces on Proxmox: A Free Citrix VDI Alternative

    Explore how Kasm Workspaces paired with Proxmox VE offers a browser-based, scalable, and free VDI alternative to Citrix and VMware Horizon.

    December 9, 2025
    9 min read read
    MinIO
    S3
    Object Storage
    Self-Hosting
    Garage
    SeaweedFS
    Ceph

    MinIO Alternatives: Self-Hosted S3 After Maintenance Mode

    MinIO's open-source version went into maintenance mode, then got archived. Compare the best MinIO alternatives: Garage, SeaweedFS, RustFS and Ceph.

    December 4, 2025
    8 min read read
    Homelab
    TrueNAS
    Proxmox
    ZFS
    Storage
    Career
    Self-hosting

    How a 200TB Proxmox and TrueNAS Homelab Became a Career Portfolio

    An IT support tech built a 200TB Proxmox and TrueNAS homelab for about six grand to prove his skills, and turned the build into a living resume.

    November 5, 2025
    8 min read
    Tailscale
    VPN
    Self-hosting
    Headscale
    Outage
    Infrastructure

    Tailscale Was Down Again, and Here's What the Internet Had to Say

    A Tailscale control plane outage left users locked out of the admin console, raised status page doubts and sent some toward Headscale and backup VPNs.

    November 3, 2025
    7 min read
    self-hosting
    VPS
    cloud
    homelab
    proxmox

    Cloud vs. Couch: Is VPS the Better Way to Self-Host in 2025?

    Why self-hosters are moving from home servers to VPS, where home hardware still wins on storage, latency and control, and how hybrid setups combine both.

    October 25, 2025
    9 min read

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