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Run your own services and take back your data: home servers, Docker, VPNs, backups, and privacy-first alternatives.
The practical guide to Tailscale — the zero-config mesh VPN built on WireGuard — how it differs from raw WireGuard, installing it across a real homelab, exit nodes, self-hosted alternatives like Headscale, and honest pricing.
7 articles
The guide to YubiKey and hardware security keys — what they are, how to set one up for 2FA/SSH/passwordless login, device comparisons, alternatives, and how they stack up against passkeys.
7 articles
The practical guide to securing a home network — router hardening, WiFi encryption, firmware updates, IoT device isolation, and firewalls, written from the author's own homelab network.
7 articles
The practical, first-hand guide to protecting your privacy online — private email, browsers, messaging apps, authenticator apps, identity theft protection, encrypted DNS, and self-hosted tools — from someone who runs a homelab and actually uses them.
8 articles
The practical guide to running real self-hosted services with Docker Compose — restart policies, networking, volumes and backups, secrets, build vs pull, debugging, and the down/stop/kill difference — grounded in the author's own homelab compose files.
8 articles
The guide to replacing Big Tech apps with your own self-hosted server — LLM chat, music streaming, automation, Reddit reading, git hosting, and CI/CD, all run and benchmarked on the author's own homelab.
7 articles
The hands-on guide to turning a Raspberry Pi into a real home server — a NAS, a Minecraft server, a security-camera hub, a retro-gaming box and a headless always-on box — with real setup steps, running costs and where a Pi actually hits its limits, from a working homelab.
7 articles
An honest, first-hand guide to password managers — whether your browser's or phone's built-in manager is good enough, how Bitwarden and 1Password compare, and how to self-host your own with Vaultwarden.
6 articles
A hands-on guide to building and running a home lab: hardware, virtualization, storage, media, and self-hosted services — from someone who runs one.
7 articles
Search results for Tailscale scatter across install guides, pricing pages, and comparisons with no map between them. This hub ties all six — what it is, WireGuard internals, install, exit nodes, pricing, and Headscale — into one decision path from a homelab that runs it.
Added a second person to your tailnet and worried a bill is coming? Tailscale's free Personal plan covers 6 users with unlimited devices per user after the April 2026 rework — the real math on what's actually free and when Standard or Premium pays off.
Tailscale's free tier caps out at 6 users. Headscale, Netbird, ZeroTier, and Twingate compared on real free-tier limits, self-hosting effort, and what switching actually costs.
Hotel wifi doesn't need to see your traffic. Setting up a Tailscale exit node so a phone or laptop routes through home instead — the two-command setup, the DNS-leak toggle most guides skip, and a real cost/speed comparison against a commercial VPN.
A subnet route sat approved in the admin console and still didn't work. The real-world install walkthrough across an Ubuntu server, a Raspberry Pi, and a Proxmox host/LXC — auth flow, MagicDNS, ACL tags, and the two gotchas (LXC's missing /dev/net/tun, the two-step route requirement) that actually cost time.
Tailscale isn't a WireGuard competitor, it's WireGuard with a coordination server, NAT traversal, ACLs, and exit nodes wrapped around it. A first-hand decision framework for when raw WireGuard is enough and when Tailscale's managed layer earns the tradeoff, with sourced pricing and performance figures.
Passkeys and hardware security keys use the same FIDO2 standard but solve different problems. What device-bound vs synced passkeys mean, where a physical key still matters, and the setup that covers both.
Every 'best security key' list names the same products in the same order. This one matches your devices, protocols, and budget to a real answer instead — including a cheaper Yubico line most guides skip.
Tailscale explained: how its WireGuard-based mesh VPN, coordination server, and NAT traversal actually work, what the free plan includes in 2026, and who it fits.
A hardware security key stops phishing in a way SMS codes and authenticator apps can't. Start here to find out if you need one, then jump straight to the guide that matches your situation.
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