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AWS S3 Backups for Your Homelab: Automated, Encrypted, Under €5/Month

Back up your homelab to AWS S3 and Glacier — Proxmox VMs, Docker volumes, Nextcloud — using restic with automated scheduling and real cost numbers.

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Linux Homelab Security Hardening: Complete Checklist (2026)

Harden any Ubuntu or Debian server in under an hour: SSH lockdown, UFW, fail2ban, CrowdSec, and automatic updates — every command tested, reason explained.

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Coolify on Your Homelab: Ditch Vercel and Heroku for Good

Step-by-step guide to deploying Coolify on Proxmox or bare-metal Linux, setting up push-to-deploy, and routing traffic with Caddy or Traefik. Self-hosted PaaS that actually works.

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Debian 13.5 (Trixie) Released: What Homelab Admins Need to Know Before Updating

Debian 13.5 is out with CVE patches and updated packages. Here's the safe update workflow for homelab servers, plus whether Trixie beats Ubuntu LTS.

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SvelteKit vs Astro: Which SSG Actually Performs Better in Production?

We benchmarked Astro vs SvelteKit across Cloudflare Pages, self-hosted nginx, and real blog workloads. Here's what the Lighthouse scores actually showed.

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Fragnesia: How to Check and Patch the Linux Privilege Escalation Exploit on Your Homelab

Fragnesia is a Linux kernel LPE exploit hitting homelabs hard. Here's how to check your kernel, patch via apt/dnf/pacman, and apply stopgap mitigations on Proxmox, Ubuntu, and Debian.

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Ansible Homelab Bundle

25 production-ready Ansible files across five roles: base hardening, Docker CE, SSH/kernel security with CrowdSec, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, and Ollama with automatic GPU detection. Run one command and your server is configured — no copy-pasting from blog posts.

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