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Self-Hosting

28 practical Self-Hosting articles from Netbay Engineering — written for operators running Linux and Windows VPS in India.

28 articles in this topic

Monitor your services and publish a public status page with Uptime Kuma, Telegram and webhook alerts, health checks, and a single Docker container.

Give internal self-hosted apps real HTTPS with mkcert or a local ACME CA so your private dashboards stop showing scary certificate warnings.

Run Shlink on a VPS to shorten, track, and redirect your own links with a REST API, QR codes, custom slugs, expiry rules, and visit analytics.

Aggregate all your self-hosted services into one Grafana overview with Prometheus scraping, alerts, and a status page you can actually trust.

Replace Google Analytics with Umami, a cookieless self-hosted analytics tool with a Postgres backend, real-time dashboards, and no consent banners.

Automate image and dependency updates with watchtower and Renovate so your self-hosted stack stays patched without breaking your careful setup.

Deploy Miniflux on a VPS to aggregate thousands of feeds into a fast, keyboard-driven RSS reader with a Postgres backend and complete privacy.

Learn which self-hosted data actually needs backing up and how often, then wire automated off-site restores you can actually trust when it matters.

Stream your own movies and shows with Jellyfin using Docker Compose, hardware-accelerated transcoding, metadata, and a secure Caddy reverse proxy.

Put one authentication layer in front of all self-hosted apps with Authelia so every public tool shares the same login, 2FA, and access rules.

Give every self-hosted service its own Docker network and limit cross-service talk so one compromised container cannot walk the whole stack.

Run Vaultwarden, the lightweight Bitwarden-compatible server, with hardened TLS, invitation-only signup, and encrypted off-box vault backups.