--- title: "SelfHostedApp — Self-Host Your Digital Life" description: "Practical guides, tutorials and opinions for self-hosting your digital infrastructure. Docker, Linux, networking, backups and privacy." canonical_url: https://selfhostedapp.com/ source_url: https://selfhostedapp.com/index.md --- # SelfHostedApp > Practical guides, tutorials and opinions for self-hosting your digital infrastructure. Docker, Linux, networking, backups, privacy — no fluff, just working solutions. SelfHostedApp is a blog about taking back control of your digital life by running your own services on hardware you control. Every guide is written from real experience running services in production on a homelab. The author is troysk, who runs everything on a refurbished Intel i3 8th gen Mini ITX PC with 32GB of RAM and Cloudflare Tunnel for remote access. A clean Markdown version of every page on this site is available by appending `.md` to the URL. For example, `/blog/getting-started-self-hosting/` is also available at `/blog/getting-started-self-hosting.md`. The full curated index of LLM-friendly content is at https://selfhostedapp.com/llms.txt and the concatenated full text of every post is at https://selfhostedapp.com/llms-full.txt. ## Latest Articles - [I Replaced Google Analytics with Plausible and My Site Got Faster](https://selfhostedapp.com/blog/privacy-analytics-with-plausible.md): Google Analytics was slowing my site down and selling my visitor data. Plausible is privacy-first, lightweight, and self-hosted. - [I Read 50 Blogs a Day Without Opening a Browser. Here Is How.](https://selfhostedapp.com/blog/rss-reader-with-freshrss.md): I was subscribed to 50 blogs via email. My inbox was chaos. FreshRSS lets me read them all in one clean interface. - [I Created My Own URL Shortener and Ditched Bitly](https://selfhostedapp.com/blog/url-shortener-with-shlink.md): Bitly is fine until they want $40 a month for custom domains and analytics. Shlink does the same thing on my server for free. - [Pi-hole Blocked 25% of My DNS Queries. My Internet Got Faster.](https://selfhostedapp.com/blog/ad-blocking-with-pihole.md): I installed Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi. It now blocks ads, trackers, and malware at the network level. Every device in my house is protected. - [I Built My Own VPN with WireGuard and Headscale. Here Is Why You Should Too.](https://selfhostedapp.com/blog/vpn-with-wireguard-headscale.md): Tailscale is amazing but depends on their servers. Headscale lets you run the same thing on your own infrastructure. - [Your Homelab Deserves a Dashboard. Here Is the Best One.](https://selfhostedapp.com/blog/homelab-dashboard-with-homarr.md): I had 15 services running and kept forgetting which port was which. Homarr gave me a single page to see everything. - [I Digitized Every Recipe in My House and Now My Kitchen Talks to My Server](https://selfhostedapp.com/blog/recipe-management-with-mealie.md): My grandmother's recipes were on handwritten cards. Now they are in a searchable, self-hosted recipe manager I can access from my phone while cooking. - [I Replaced Gmail with My Own Email Server (And Survived)](https://selfhostedapp.com/blog/self-hosted-email-with-mailcow.md): Setting up a mail server is terrifying. You will mess up DNS. You will land in spam folders. And then it will work and you will feel unstoppable. - [Google Docs but Private: Why I Self-Host CryptPad](https://selfhostedapp.com/blog/encrypted-docs-with-cryptpad.md): I stopped editing documents on Google Docs after realizing they train AI on my content. 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