XDA Developers·7wI replaced Portainer, Grafana, and Prometheus with this stack
A home lab enthusiast shares their switch from Portainer, Grafana, and Prometheus to a lighter trio: Dockhand for container management, Beszel for system monitoring, and Glance for a unified dashboard. The new stack uses fewer resources, offers better visuals out of the box, and is more beginner-friendly for small-scale self-hosted setups on low-end hardware like Raspberry Pi or mini PCs.
selfh.st·4wSelf-Host Weekly (24 April 2026)
A weekly self-hosting newsletter covering notable events from the week of April 24, 2026. Highlights include Microsoft's controversial GitHub CLI telemetry opt-in, a Bitwarden CLI supply chain compromise, a DDoS attack on Mastodon's flagship server, and the ongoing dispute between Nextcloud, LibreOffice, Collabora, and Euro-Office. Also featured is Anchor, a new offline-first self-hosted note-taking app deployable via Docker, plus a curated list of self-hosting videos and a quick CLI tip for the mkdir -p flag.
selfh.st·7wSelf-Host Weekly (27 March 2026)
A weekly self-hosting newsletter covering GitHub Copilot's new AI training opt-out setting, OpenAI shutting down Sora and pivoting to coding tools, LibreOffice's response to donation banner complaints, a critical Dockhand security release, Booklore's discontinuation and emerging forks (Grimmory, BookLite), Plex mobile metadata editing, a Zoom privacy scandal, and a spotlight on Kaneo, a self-hosted project management tool. Also includes curated videos on WireGuard, Proxmox vs XCP-ng, and homebrew routers following the FCC ban on Chinese-made consumer routers.
selfh.st·6wSelf-Host Weekly (10 April 2026)
This week's self-hosting newsletter covers the escalating conflict between The Document Foundation (LibreOffice) and Collabora Online, which has resulted in Collabora's members being removed from the community and plans for a new fork. Also covered: Immich's upcoming managed backup service, controversy around email host MXroute's founder doxxing a customer, ErsatzTV's archival and potential reboot, Tailscale's updated pricing (free plan now allows 6 devices), and Pushover's improved API quota system. A spotlight on Chibisafe, a self-hosted file sharing platform, rounds out the issue.