Listicle · 9 min read Best VPS Hosting Providers in 2026 The best VPS hosting providers in 2026 split into two camps: budget-focused hosts that maximize RAM and storage per dollar, and performance-focused hosts that charge more for dedicated…
Tutorials · 9 min read How to Self-Host Pangolin on a VPS (Replace Cloudflare Tunnels) Learn how to install Pangolin on a VPS, connect your private network with the Newt WireGuard client, and expose services securely – without opening a single router port…
Comparisons · 5 min read GitLab vs GitHub: Key Differences and the Self-Hosted Option (2026) GitLab and GitHub are the two best-known Git platforms, and both offer modern repositories, pull/merge requests, and CI/CD. The decisive difference is ownership: GitLab offers a free, open-source…
Comparisons · 5 min read Gitea vs Gogs 2026: Which Lightweight Git Server Should You Run? Gitea and Gogs are the two minimalist, Go-based self-hosted Git servers — both ship as a single binary, both run on tiny hardware, and they share a common…
Comparisons · 5 min read Gitea vs GitLab: Which Self-Hosted Git Platform Wins in 2026? Gitea and GitLab solve the same starting problem — hosting your own Git repositories — but they answer it at opposite scales. Gitea is a lightweight code-hosting service…
Listicle · 7 min read 7 Best Open-Source GitHub Alternatives You Can Self-Host (2026) The best open-source GitHub alternatives in 2026 are Gitea and its community fork Forgejo for lightweight self-hosting, and GitLab Community Edition for a full DevOps platform. Beyond those,…
Comparisons · 5 min read Gitea vs Forgejo 2026: What’s the Difference and Which to Self-Host? Gitea and Forgejo are two lightweight, self-hosted Git platforms that look almost identical — because one began as a fork of the other. Forgejo split from Gitea in…
Comparisons · 4 min read LiteLLM vs Portkey, Kong & Cloudflare: AI Gateways Compared If LiteLLM is the open-source, self-hosted default for routing LLM traffic, the main alternatives each lean a different way: Portkey adds governance and guardrails, Kong AI Gateway fits…
Comparisons · 5 min read LiteLLM vs OpenRouter: Which Should You Use? LiteLLM and OpenRouter both give you one API in front of many model providers, but they sit at opposite ends of the build-vs-buy spectrum. LiteLLM is an open-source…
Listicle · 7 min read Best LLM Gateways in 2026: Top LiteLLM Alternatives An LLM gateway puts a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint in front of many model providers, adding routing, fallbacks, cost tracking, and access keys so your application talks to one…
Tutorials · 4 min read What Is Tracearr? Self-Hosted Media-Server Monitoring Tracearr is a free, open-source, self-hosted monitoring platform for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. It pulls every stream across your media servers into one dashboard, shows you who is…
Comparisons · 4 min read Tracearr vs Tautulli: Which Should You Self-Host? Tautulli is the established, rock-solid analytics tool for Plex, and it's the right pick if Plex is all you run. Tracearr is the newer challenger: it monitors Plex,…
Listicle · 10 min read Best Open Source Load Balancers in 2026 A practical comparison of the best open source load balancers for 2026, from HAProxy and NGINX to Traefik, Envoy, Caddy, and IPVS, with guidance on where each one…
Comparisons · 8 min read Coolify vs Easypanel: Which Self-Hosted PaaS to Pick in 2026? Coolify and Easypanel are two of the most-talked-about self-hosted PaaS tools right now – both promise a modern, Vercel-style experience on your own server, both speak Docker, and…
Comparisons · 7 min read Ollama vs LM Studio: Which Local LLM Runtime Should You Use in 2026? If you want to run large language models on your own hardware in 2026, two names dominate the conversation: Ollama and LM Studio. Both let you run LLMs…