Self-Hosting

Diagram of the self-hosted mail flow through postscreen, milters, Dovecot, direct delivery and webmail

Self-Hosted Email: Running My Own Mail Server Again

How I moved my domain’s email from a hosted provider to a self-hosted Postfix and Dovecot server in my home lab, the design choices behind it, and what I learned along the way.

The Matomo analytics dashboard showing visits over time and a visitor map of New Zealand

Self-Hosted Matomo Behind a Reverse Proxy

How I self-host Matomo analytics for a static Hugo site. Matomo stays on an internal server, and a DMZ reverse proxy carries the tracking traffic, with the real visitor IP and GeoLite2 geolocation preserved.

The Jellyfin Live TV guide showing a grid of channels and programme schedules

Live TV in Jellyfin with NextPVR (and a Samsung TV App)

How I run NextPVR alongside Jellyfin in one LXC container for live TV, how a one-line config setting broke every channel, and what it took to get Jellyfin onto a 2020 Samsung TV.

MagicMirror² Wall Dashboard, Now With Home Lab Pages

A MagicMirror² dashboard with weather, Home Assistant, Spotify, news, stocks and webcams, now rotating through two read-only Grafana pages for the home lab. Covers the hardware history, the kiosk setup and how Grafana is embedded safely.

Home Assistant Home · PC dashboard with Now, Needs attention, Rooms and Homelab columns: weather and indoor-outdoor temperature graphs, quick controls, line-art room tiles and home lab status

Home Assistant OS in My Home Lab: How It's Configured

A revised tour of my Home Assistant OS install: the device fleets, small but useful template sensors, e-mail and phone alerts, and a repo-managed PC and mobile dashboard suite with strict design rules.