6 applications
A home server that earns its keep
Six recipes that turn a spare machine into something the household actually uses: a password vault, network-wide filtering, file sync, uptime checks and a media library.
Guides
Start from the task, not from the list
Every guide is a set of recipes picked for one situation, with the reason each one is there and the filters that produced it. Below them, the whole catalog by category and by the service you would be replacing.
Sets
Guides
Picked by hand, with the requirements and the verification status of every recipe on the page.
7 applications
Everything that fits into 1 GB of RAM
The recipes that run comfortably on the cheapest VPS or an old thin client — what they cost in memory, and where the number stops being the whole story.
6 applications
What a Raspberry Pi can actually run
Recipes with 32-bit ARM images and a memory budget a Pi can meet — plus the two hardware decisions that matter more than the application you pick.
6 applications
Services that never need a public address
Recipes designed to stay on the local network: what they give up by not being published, and why that is usually the safer trade.
5 applications
A family cloud without the subscription
Files, photos and shared links for a household — three ways to build it, and the one thing all of them require you to decide first.
4 applications
A media library you own
Films, music and photographs served to every screen in the house — and the one hardware question that decides how much server you need.
3 applications
Knowing when your server stops
What the catalog offers for watching a home server today, what each of these services actually sees, and the blind spot none of them can cover on their own.
Catalog
By category
What the application does, and what to weigh before running that kind of service yourself.
- Automation1 application
- Bookmarks and archiving1 application
- Cloud storage2 applications
- Development2 applications
- Documents2 applications
- File synchronisation1 application
- Media servers1 application
- Monitoring1 application
- Music1 application
- Networking1 application
- Password managers1 application
- Personal finance1 application
- Photos and video2 applications
- RSS and news2 applications
- Smart home1 application
Migration
Instead of a subscription
Services people usually arrive from, and the recipes in the catalog that cover the same job.
- 1Password1
- AdGuard DNS1
- Adobe Acrobat2
- Amazon Alexa1
- Apple Music1
- Better Uptime1
- Bitbucket2
- Bitwarden Cloud1
- Cloudflare Gateway1
- Docspell Cloud1
- Dropbox3
- Emby1
- Evernote1
- Feedly2
- GitHub2
- GitLab2
- Google Drive3
- Google Home1
- Google Photos2
- iCloud Photos2
- iLovePDF1
- Inoreader2
- LastPass1
- Make1
- Microsoft 3651
- Microsoft Power Automate1
- Monarch Money1
- NewsBlur2
- NextDNS1
- Pinboard1
- Pingdom1
- Plex1
- Pocket1
- Quicken1
- Raindrop.io1
- Smallpdf1
- SmartThings1
- Spotify1
- UptimeRobot1
- Yandex Disk5
- Yandex Music1
- Yandex Smart Home1
- YNAB1
- Zapier1