Tutorials Overview

Boop is a self-hosted notification inbox that pushes events from your apps to your iPhone. This guide covers deploying it on a VPS with Docker, connecting Apple push…

A step-by-step guide to running Wan 2.2 video generation in ComfyUI on a GPU VPS, from installing ComfyUI and downloading the model files to loading the native workflow…

Start by auditing what you’re actually paying for, then replace one tool at a time — not everything at once. The order that works: set up your server…

KoboldCpp turns a VPS into a private LLM server with a web interface and an API. This guide covers what the tool is used for, how to deploy…

Deploy SGLang for fast, self-hosted LLM inference on a GPU VPS — what it is, how it installs, and when it’s the right choice.

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…

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…

Host your own CS2 dedicated server on a Contabo VPS — requirements, SteamCMD setup, and port configuration + Self-hosted vs. Managed!

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…