10 posts tagged with "Self-Hosted"

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

AMUD Dashboard isn't a startup. It's a homelab tool I built because I wanted it. But it gets better when other people break it in ways I didn't imagine.

I've seen people maintain elaborate backup scripts for YAML dashboards — git repos, env files, secret sidecars, three different paths.

Sometimes you have a spare NUC or mini PC that does one job: show the dashboard on a wall and nothing else.

I built AMUD. I'm biased. Here's the honest comparison anyway.

Your dashboard is a map to your entire homelab. Treat it like one.

Not everyone runs Proxmox. Some of you are Docker-all-the-way-down and that's fine.

I lost a Saturday to a YAML space.

Docker is fine. I use it. But wrapping a dashboard — a thing that mostly displays links and polls metrics — inside another network stack on a Proxmox box always felt like wearing two coats indoors.

My homelab had the usual problem: twenty services, zero good way to open them.

I tried the usual suspects. Heimdall looked nice until I checked htop and saw PHP-FPM doing absolutely nothing useful while holding ~150MB. Homepage was closer to what I wanted — live widgets, clean UI — but I spent an entire Sunday debugging a YAML indent before I admitted I hate editing config files on disk for something as dumb as "add Jellyfin link."

So I did what any reasonable person with too much free time does: I wrote another dashboard.