Best of self-hosting — February 2026

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   Hacker News·11w

   "Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought.

   A founder's firsthand account of building a startup entirely on European infrastructure, covering the full stack chosen (Hetzner, Scaleway, Bunny.net, Nebius, Hanko) and self-hosted tools (Gitea, Plausible, Rancher, Infisical). The post details unexpected friction points: thin ecosystems around EU transactional email, the pain of leaving GitHub, and unexplained TLD pricing markups. It also honestly acknowledges unavoidable US dependencies — Google/Apple for ads and app distribution, social OAuth flows, and frontier AI models like Claude. The conclusion: EU-only infrastructure is achievable and cost-effective, but requires deliberate effort against industry defaults.

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   selfh.st·13w

   Self-Host Weekly (6 February 2026)

   This weekly newsletter covers self-hosting news including Jellyfin's official Samsung TV app release, Home Assistant's February update renaming add-ons to apps, Pushover's new webhook support, and Raspberry Pi price increases. Featured content includes Inkheart, a lightweight self-hosted PDF indexing library, plus community project updates, software releases, and video tutorials on various self-hosting topics.

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   Tailscale·10w

   LM Link: Access models on your powerful devices you own, as if they were local

   Tailscale and LM Studio have partnered to launch LM Link, a feature that lets users securely access open-weight LLMs running on remote hardware they own as if those models were local. Built on Tailscale's tsnet (a userspace Go library), LM Link creates end-to-end encrypted peer-to-peer connections between devices without exposing anything to the public internet. Setup requires just a few clicks or terminal commands. Use cases include home power users offloading to a beefy desktop GPU, teams sharing large models internally, regulated industries keeping data on-prem, and developers running CI tests against large models privately.

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   Jeff Geerling·10w

   Upgrading my Open Source Pi Surveillance Server with Frigate

   Jeff Geerling upgrades his local, cloud-free home surveillance system using a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 on the new Exaviz Cruiser carrier board, housed in a DeskPi prototype mini rack enclosure. The setup runs Frigate NVR with a Hailo 8 AI accelerator for object detection, two 4TB NAS drives in a RAID 1 array via mdadm, and leverages the Cruiser's built-in 8-port PoE+ switch for camera connectivity. Key hardware details include the PCIe/USB architecture trade-offs on the CM5, cooling challenges with the prototype enclosure, and software setup via an Ansible playbook. With three cameras (two 1080p, one 4K), CPU usage stayed under 5% and object detection ran at ~10ms, leaving plenty of headroom for more cameras.

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   selfh.st·10w

   Self-Host Weekly (27 February 2026)

   A weekly self-hosting newsletter covering notable events including OpenDroneLog receiving and surviving a cease-and-desist, a serious security vulnerability in Huntarr, LibreOffice reviving its web version, Vikunja reaching v1.0 and v2.0 in quick succession, ErsatzTV being archived, Hetzner announcing a 37% VPS price increase, Firefox 148 adding an AI kill switch, and Anthropic dropping its flagship safety pledge. Also includes new software spotlight on MediKeep (personal medical records tracker deployable via Docker), curated video links, and a quick CLI tip.

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