Self-Host Weekly (10 October 2025)

Weekly Highlights

Every so often I'm reminded just how much the self-hosted community relies on the very platforms we're trying to escape (Discord, Cloudflare, etc.). This week, GitHub stole the spotlight with their announcement that feature work will be paused (well, kind of) as the company migrates their infrastructure to Azure. (If you haven't already guessed, it's driven by AI-induced resource constraints.)

And while I recognize the difficulty self-hosting infrastructure and development pipelines might pose for some projects, I'm still hopeful events like this will at least prompt some to consider a transition to non-profits like Codeberg instead. (Either way, I'm not judging.)

There was a flurry of other interesting activity and buzz this week that more than one of you will be impacted by:

• selfh.st/apps received a major redesign and some new functionality (sidebar, new filters, updated light theme, and more)
• The developer of Tiny Tiny RSS abruptly announced he's shuttering the project and marking its forums as read-only*. But don't worry – contributors have already created a new home for a community-maintained fork of the project.
• The Overseerr and Jellyseerr teams went straight from dating to married as they announced the two are merging into a single project named Seerr (such a tragedeigh)
• Revolt Chat misread users' feedback towards Portainer's purple rebranding and went all-in on the color as the project was renamed to Stoat after receiving a cease-and-desist over the use of the word 'Revolt'
• The Actual Budget team shared their contributor rewards program has been a success and that they'll be expanding it in the coming months
• A new container update platform named Tugtainer made me regrettably aware of what 'tug' means in other parts of the world
• Python missed its opportunity to make a π-thon joke with the release of v3.14 this week

And lastly, please drop in and complete my annual user survey if you haven't already:

2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions

Annual user survey covering various self-hosting topics

selfh.stEthan Sholly

Happy selfh.st/ing!

*Editor's Note: The original version of this newsletter referenced some of the imagery that has historically brought controversy to the TTRSS community. I apologize to those I offended and will commit to being more thoughtful when covering sensitive subjects in the future.

Newswire

Redis warns of critical flaw impacting thousands of instances

The Redis security team has released patches for a maximum severity vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain remote code execution on thousands of vulnerable instances.

BleepingComputerSergiu Gatlan

Self-Hosting Email Like It’s 1984

Notes from setting up a truly minimal self-hosted email server with Postfix and OpenDKIM. Covers TLS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DNS, reverse DNS, multiple domains, and delivering to Gmail.

Max Adamski

Embed Ente Albums in Your Website

Ente now supports embedding your public albums directly on your website

ente

Security at the Core: Stalwart completes Second Security Audit | Stalwart Labs

At Stalwart Labs, security is at the heart of everything we build. As part of our ongoing commitment to delivering a trustworthy email and collaboration server, we recently completed our second independent security audit, conducted by Radically Open Security. Our previous audit took place exactly two years ago, in 2023 — and with significant changes to our codebase since then, a fresh and thorough assessment was essential.

StalwartMauro D.

Why Self-host?

Let me make the argument why you should start self-hosting more of your personal services.

Roman ZippRoman Zipp

Beszel — Lightweight self-hosted server monitoring for your homelab

Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring solution with Docker stats, historical data, and alerts. Built with a single Go binary and minimal resource footprint, it’s perfect for monitoring your homelab infrastructure efficiently.

Akash RajpurohitAkash Rajpurohit

Continuing to reward contributors | Actual Budget Documentation

Our 3-month trial of paying core maintainers has been a success. We’re making it permanent — and will be expanding the system to cover bug bounties, feature work, and more.

Actual Open SourceMatiss Janis Aboltins

WireGuard topologies for self-hosting at home

Gabriel GarridoGabriel Garrido

How much radiation can a Pi handle in space? | Jeff Geerling

Jeff Geerling

Download all of your GitHub data

Now you can request an archive of your data from your account settings page.

The GitHub BlogLexi Galantino

Content Spotlight

Meet PigeonPod, a self-hosted platform for converting YouTube content into podcasts. With PigeonPod, users can easily subscribe to channels and playlists to automatically have their content downloaded and published to a generated podcast feed as soon as it appears. Features include automatic syncing, content filtering, episode management, audio quality controls, ad removal, and a responsive UI.

PigeonPod can be easily deployed via Docker and doesn't require any additional dependencies to run.

Links: Website, Source Code

Videos and Podcasts

• What Hardware Runs My Homelab In 2025! | DB Tech
• Plan Your Adventures with TRIP | Self-Hosted Map Tracker & Planner | SYNACK Time
• Readarr Is Broken? Rreading-Glasses Fixes It FAST! | AlienTech42
• Welcome to SilverBullet part 1: Basic Markdown and Outlines | Zef Hemel
• When Unraid OGs Meet: IBRACORP x SpaceInvaderOne | IBRACORP and The Uncast Show

Command Line Corner

Use ls -lt to list files and directories in the current folder sorted by last modified:

$ ls -lt
  Oct 7 docker-compose.yml
  Oct 6 example.txt
  Oct 4 self-host-weekly.txt
  Oct 1 .env

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• Christian Cleberg
• tirreno

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