What Is BentoPDF? A Privacy-First, Self-Hosted PDF Toolkit
BentoPDF lets you run a private, self-hosted PDF toolkit on your own Contabo VPS. See how the client-side architecture works, how to deploy it with Docker, and which…
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Self-Hosting Supabase on a VPS: What You Need to Know
Self-hosted Supabase gives you a full Postgres-backed backend on your own server. This guide covers the 11-container Docker stack, minimum VPS requirements, deployment steps, and how Contabo fits…
Setting Up a CS2 Dedicated Server: A VPS Hosting Guide
Host your own CS2 dedicated server on a Contabo VPS — requirements, SteamCMD setup, and port configuration + Self-hosted vs. Managed!
How to Host a Palworld Dedicated Server on a VPS
Run a persistent Palworld world your friends can join any time. This guide covers official hardware requirements, SteamCMD install, port setup, and the nightly restart that keeps the…
How to Build a Self-Hosted AI Sales Agent for Lead Research and Outreach
The most reliable approach isn't a single autonomous chatbot — it's a workflow system with an LLM in the middle: n8n handles orchestration, Ollama runs the model, and…
Self-Hosting nextExplorer: A Browser-Based File Manager for Your VPS
nextExplorer is a self-hosted, browser-based file manager: it turns any set of folders on a server into a full file-management interface — browsing, previews, built-in editors, uploads, and…
How to Install Jellyfin: Docker Compose Setup Guide
Jellyfin is a free, open-source media server — a no-paywall alternative to Plex — that streams your own movies, TV, and music library to nearly any device. This…
How to Install Immich on a VPS: Docker Compose Setup Guide
Immich is a self-hosted Google Photos alternative with automatic mobile backup and AI-powered search. This guide covers installing it with Docker Compose: downloading the official compose files, configuring…
How to Build a Private Homelab on a Single VPS
A homelab is a personal set of self-hosted services — media, photos, files, automation, monitoring — run for learning, privacy, and control rather than convenience. This guide covers…
How to Self-Host Coolify: Complete Setup Guide
Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable PaaS — a direct alternative to Heroku, Netlify, and Vercel — that deploys applications straight from a Git repository into Docker containers, with…
Build Your Own MCP Server: A Developer’s Guide
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server is a standardized way to expose tools, resources, and prompts to LLM applications like Claude — think of it as a web…
How to Install Proxmox VE on a Dedicated Server
Proxmox VE is a free, Debian-based type-1 hypervisor that runs full KVM virtual machines and lightweight LXC containers side by side from one web-managed host. This guide covers…
ComfyUI Workflows: Templates and Best Practices
A ComfyUI workflow is the saved node graph — stored as a JSON file — that describes a complete generation pipeline: which checkpoint loads, how the prompt is…
How to Install ComfyUI on a GPU Server
ComfyUI is a node-based interface for running Stable Diffusion, Flux, and other diffusion models, valued for the fine-grained control its graph view gives over every stage of image…
Deploying Stirling PDF on a VPS: A Docker Setup Guide
Stirling PDF is an open-source PDF platform with more than 60 tools — merge, split, OCR, sign, redact, convert — that runs entirely on a server you control…