Self-Host Weekly (26 September 2025)

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Weekly Highlights

I spent the better part of the week trying to figure out what might be wrong with my RSS reader until finally realizing the flurry of Cloudflare news and activity was real.

If you're utilizing their services in your infrastructure, you might be interested in their new e-mail services beta program, expanded feature set for non-enterprise customers, new Content Signals Policy, Ladybird project sponsorship, initiative to hire 1,111 interns next year (a nod to 1.1.1.1), or NET Dollar – Cloudflare's new cryptocurrency for the AI-driven internet (eye roll).

The Plex team was also busy dropping content left and right for their Plex Pro Week, an annual event where they partner with popular content creators to shill features we already know exist (with this year's branding leaning heavily into chrome and liquid glass). Personally, this year's biggest takeaways were the official release of their API documentation and learning what Techno Tim looks like without a hat.

In other related news and content:

• A random blogger made the front page of Hacker News after mistakenly accusing hotio (a popular Docker image creator/maintainer) of bundling crypto mining software with their images (spoiler alert: they don't)
• The team at Raspberry Pi officially released the 500+, a Pi 5 embedded into a mechanical keyboard with RGB LEDs (it starts at $200 if you don't feel like clicking through)
• A Self-Host Weekly subscriber recently created a self-hosted WordPress course and is giving away the first few modules for free (not an affiliate link)
• YouTube made some backend changes that will require a new approach for third-party download tools to continue working

Happy selfh.st/ing!

Newswire

Plex Pro Week ’25: API Unlocked

Hello, amazing Plex pros!! While a Plex Media Server is powerful and awesome all on its own, occasionally server owners…

Plexjerry

Immich

Self-hosted photo and video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.

3,000,000 downloads. Thank you | Podman Desktop

We reached 3,000,000 Downloads of Podman Desktop. Let’s celebrate.

podman desktopMatt Demyttenaere

Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta

Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. We’re unifying email sending and routing into a single service built for developers. Sign up for the private beta.

The Cloudflare BlogThomas Gauvin

Automatic container updates with Podman quadlets

Podman’s quadlet system combined with systemd timers makes container updates easy and automatic.

Major HaydenMajor Hayden

PostgreSQL 18 Released!

The [PostgreSQL Global Development Group](https://www.postgresql.org) today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 18](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html), the latest version of the world’s most advanced …

PostgreSQL NewsPostgreSQL Global Development Group

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Content Spotlight

Meet AuthPortal, a lightweight authentication gateway. Built as a simpler alternative to existing platforms like Authentik and Authelia, AuthPortal leverages existing users across Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby to manage access and sessions across internal services. Features include an Overseerr-like login popup, signed JWT session cookies, simple env-based config, LDAP support, and more.

AuthPortal can be easily deployed via Docker and requires an external PostgreSQL database for data storage.

Links: Source Code

Videos and Podcasts

• 10 Home Lab Mistakes I Made (and How You Can Avoid Them in 2025) | VirtualizationHowTo
• Stop Manual Renaming! FileBot on Unraid Will Save You HOURS | AlienTech42
• Could Pangolin Replace Nginx Proxy Manager on Unraid? | IBRACORP
• Enterprise Monitoring That's Free & Open Source | Jim's Garage
• Monitor Your Plex Server Like a Pro | Techno Tim
• Self-hosted automation for EVERYTHING! // n8n Tutorial | Christian Lempa

Command Line Corner

Use ls -lhS to list the directories and files in the current folder with human-readable sizes:

$ ls -lhS
  8.5M example.txt
   18k docker-compose.yml
    25 self-host-weekly.txt

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