This Week in Self-Hosted (28 March 2025)

Weekly Highlights

I spent a not-insignificant amount of time this week reading up on vibe coding (which definitely isn't how I built my directory of self-hosted applications last year...) and its impact on self-hosting. As usual, nothing is ever black and white – but that hasn't stopped the internet from treating it as such. I suppose everyone will have to decide for themselves whether AI developed-software can be useful or is utter garbage. In the meantime, enjoy the memes.

In other news, the Stalwart Mail team recently celebrated after receiving a grant from the NLnet Foundation, which will be used to develop CalDav, CardDAV, and WebDAV servers to accompany its existing offerings. The current lack of a cohesive platform that delivers on all of this and a reliable mail server is often a sticking point for self-hosters hesitant to join the e-mail scene.

Lastly, I've updated my Plex privacy guide after last week's news for those who aren't ready to make the jump to one of its alternatives. A few new options have appeared, so be sure to check it out if it's been a bit since you last updated your settings.

Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users

Update these settings to limit the data Plex collects about your account, content, and streaming habits

selfh.stEthan Sholly

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

Stalwart Receives NLNet Grant to Build Collaboration Server | Stalwart Labs

We’re happy to announce that Stalwart Labs has been awarded a new grant from the NGI0 Core Fund, established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme. This funding will support the development of essential collaboration features, marking a major milestone in Stalwart’s evolution from a modern email server into a complete, self-hosted collaboration platform.

StalwartMauro D.

Announcing State of the Open Home 2025

April 12th will bring another big stream full of exciting updates and announcements.

Home AssistantPaulus Schoutsen

Open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH (OPKSSH): integrating single sign-on with SSH

OPKSSH (OpenPubkey SSH) is now open-sourced as part of the OpenPubkey project. This enables users and organizations to configure SSH to work with single sign-on technologies like OpenID Connect, removing the need to manually manage & configure SSH keys without adding a trusted party other than your IdP.

The Cloudflare BlogEthan Heilman

More From selfh.st

Self-Hosting Guide to Alternatives: Pocket, Omnivore

Self-hosted alternatives to popular online read later and bookmarking services

selfh.stEthan Sholly

Self-Hosted Dashboard Icons

A collection of self-hosted dashboard icons and logos

selfh.stEthan Sholly

Community Content

PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 2: creator edition)

What is it like to use PeerTube as a video creator? Spoiler alert: it’s amazing!

Elena RossiniElena Rossini

pihole-wireguard-knowhow

My Setup for Pi-hole at home and in the cloud to be used with WireGuard for the whole family.

pihole-wireguard-knowhow

Content Spotlight: Posteria

Meet Posteria, a self-hosted web interface for organizing and storing Plex media assets. With Posteria, users can easily upload posters (or download them from a number of supported providers) and automatically sync them to their Plex server with the push of a button. Features include categorization (movies, television, seasons, and collections), existing Plex poster imports, orphan detection, and a PWA for managing posters on-the-go.

Posteria can be easily installed via Docker and doesn't require any additional services (aside from Plex) for deployment. Configuration is managed via environment variables.

Links: Website, Source Code

What I'm Watching

• Cloudflare Tunnels - Improving Security & Convenience | Jim's Garage
• The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab | Xe Iaso
• Home Lab Automation with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines! | VirtualizationHowTo
• Pi-hole Syncing… But Smarter... | Techno Tim
• Run Your Own Game Server Without Breaking The Bank! | 2GuysTek
• GitLab CI CD automation (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and more…) | Christian Lempa

Command Line Corner: ls -S

Use ls -S to list files in the current directory sorted by size:

$ ls -S
  this.txt week.txt self-hosted.txt in.txt

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