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I Migrated From Homepage to AMUD Dashboard — What I Lost and Gained

Honest post-Homepage review. GitOps YAML vs browser config. No sugarcoating.

By Youssef Boubli · Creator of AMUD Dashboard

I ran Homepage for a year. Liked it. Still recommend it for the right person.

Switching to AMUD Dashboard wasn't "Homepage bad, AMUD Dashboard good." It was "I'm tired of this specific workflow."

What I lost​

  • Git-tracked config — every service change was a commit. That's gone. AMUD Dashboard lives in SQLite, not services.yaml in a repo.
  • Community widget YAML — Homepage's widget library is huge. AMUD Dashboard has built-in Plex/Jellyfin/HA/Proxmox stuff but not the long tail of community widgets.
  • Docker-only mental model — Homepage fits the "everything in compose" crowd perfectly.

What I gained​

  • UI edits at midnight — add a card from my phone browser. No SSH, no git pull on the host.
  • Native Proxmox LXC control — not a widget bolted on. First-class CTID binding and power actions.
  • RAM — meaningful on a crowded Proxmox node.
  • One-file backup — amud.db instead of yaml + env + secrets scattered around.

Who should stay on Homepage​

You like GitOps. You generate configs from Ansible. You want fifty community widgets. YAML doesn't make you twitch.

Who should try AMUD Dashboard​

Proxmox primary. YAML fatigue. Want live LXC status without shell scripts. Okay with "config in a database" as the trade.

Migration tip: screenshot your Homepage layout, recreate cards in AMUD Dashboard while watching TV. Took me about forty minutes for ~25 services. Your mileage varies.

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boubli/AMUD-Dashboard/main/setup-amud.sh | bash