Best of self-hosting — August 2025

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   Hacker News·39w

   Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

   A detailed guide on setting up a home virtualization environment using Proxmox Virtual Environment on encrypted Debian, with full automation through Ansible playbooks. The author migrates from cloud VPS to a local mini PC setup, implementing disk encryption, bridged networking, and infrastructure-as-code practices to create a flexible homelab for experimenting with Kubernetes while maintaining production service stability.

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   Hacker News·37w

   Away from Gmail

   A developer shares their experience migrating from Gmail to Mailbox.org for privacy reasons. The post covers the decision-making process between privacy-focused email providers, the technical migration using imapsync tool, and setting up PGP encryption. The author chose Mailbox.org over Proton Mail and Tutanota to maintain compatibility with Apple Mail while gaining better privacy protection for €2.50/month.

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   Product Hunt·39w

   SelfHostLLM: Calculate the GPU memory you need for LLM inference

   SelfHostLLM is a tool that helps developers calculate GPU memory requirements and maximum concurrent requests for self-hosted large language model inference. It supports popular models like Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, and Mistral, allowing users to plan their AI infrastructure efficiently with custom configurations.

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   Self-Host Weekly (1 August 2025)

   Weekly roundup of self-hosted software updates and new releases, featuring major updates to popular applications like Navidrome's multi-library support, Tandoor Recipes v2 frontend rewrite, and Immich's custom share URLs. Covers 18 software updates, 19 new tools, and recently discovered projects spanning categories from media streaming to container management, plus community content and tutorials.

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   Noted·37w

   Host Your Own File Server with Copyparty and Docker

   Copyparty is a lightweight, self-hosted file server that runs on various platforms and provides features like chunked uploads/downloads, file deduplication, indexing, and WebDAV support. The guide demonstrates how to deploy Copyparty using Docker Compose with a configuration file that defines user accounts, volumes, and server settings. The setup includes mounting config files and media directories, with options for customizing permissions and storage locations.

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