Self-Hosting & Home Servers
Technology · 68 members
Your data, your box, your uptime problem.
About this space
Running your own services on your own hardware, and keeping them running. Home labs, compose files that got out of hand, reverse proxies, certificates, and backups you have actually restored from. The standing question here is what happens when the disk dies, and the good answers come from people it has happened to.
Topics
- Hardware
- Backups
- Networking
- Help wanted
Recent discussions
- Networking: how do you keep going past the interesting part?Question · Backups · Sep 29, 2026 · 11 replies
- How do you actually verify a backup without a spare machine?Question · Backups · Sep 29, 2026 · 12 replies
- Second-hand mini PCs have ended the Raspberry Pi era for meHardware · Sep 24, 2026 · 6 replies
- Backups: the best money I could spend right now?Question · Networking · Sep 14, 2026 · 9 replies
- Networking: a small thing I am quietly pleased withHelp wanted · Sep 13, 2026 · 11 replies
- Split DNS so services resolve the same at home and awayNetworking · Sep 9, 2026 · 7 replies
- Backups: an unpopular opinion, argued properlyNetworking · Sep 5, 2026 · 8 replies
- Hardware: am I solving the wrong problem here?Question · Help wanted · Sep 1, 2026 · 4 replies
- Networking: what has actually changed in the last year?Hardware · Aug 23, 2026 · 2 replies
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