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OpenClaw is an open-source AI assistant that runs on your own machine, connects to messaging platforms, and can automate tasks, check emails, manage calendars, and more.

Your Linux VPS is probably one of your most exposed assets.

Exposing SSH directly to the internet is risky.

Both Tailscale and Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared) offer free tiers that are popular among self-hosters and home lab enthusiasts.

Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) is a free, open-source reverse proxy tool with a powerful web interface.

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) keeps your email synced across all your devices.

Sometimes you need to take a service offline — upgrades, migrations, or just fixing the mess you accidentally deployed at 2 AM.

Exposing services like Synology DSM, File Station, or Photos should never mean opening ports to the internet.

Both Netlify and Cloudflare Pages are excellent platforms for deploying static sites.

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Pixelfed.SG instance is Live but Pixelfed is technically still a v0.

Backblaze combined with Cloudflare seems to make the most sense if you’re selfhosting, that’s because Cloudflare is Backblaze’s Bandwidth Alliance partner.

Ever since working on Mastodon.SG, I’ve noticed Pixelfed and it’s potential.

Some still have lives in Twitter and find it hard to let go, they might want to keep followers from both sides updated as well.

Mastodon has just released v4.1.0 stable version and there are tons of features and fixes to it.

Mastodon is very flexible and useful, there are plenty of APIs available to play around with.

WordPress is the easiest blogging platform to host, so why not selfhost and use your own domain without paying extra for that feature?

Guys at Tapbots has just released a new beta v1.0.2 (10200) for Ivory which has a whole slew of yummies!

Ghost has recently started to support MySQL and dropped support for SQLite.

Hosting your services from home?

While most guides focuses on installing WriteFreely on Ubuntu or Docker (docker-compose), I could not find one that simply uses Synology with Docker.