About SelfhostRealm
SelfhostRealm covers self-hosting for people running services at home: which five services are worth starting with, deciding what belongs in a Docker Compose stack, replacing Google Photos with a photo server you own and moving the library across with Takeout, Jellyfin against Plex, Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi, mini PC against Pi for a first server, Proxmox against free ESXi, and a 3-2-1 backup strategy that survives a disk failure.
It is written for people at every level from first container to full rack. Coverage follows project documentation, published hardware specifications, and release notes.
What is covered here
- Comparisons
- Guides
- Hardware
- Home Automation
- Home Server
- Security
- Setup Guide
16 articles are published so far. New articles are announced on the RSS feed; there is no fixed publishing schedule and this site does not promise one.
How these articles are produced
Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those same sources before anything is published. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or a third-party measurement, the article names the source and links to it so you can check the original rather than take this site's summary of it.
Everything here is published under the SelfhostRealm Editorial byline. That is an editorial desk, not a person, and no article on this site claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Nothing here should be read as a report of something this site physically tested.
Corrections
Getting it right matters more than getting it first. If something on this site is wrong, out of date, or missing the source it should cite, email hello@selfhostrealm.com with the page and the specific claim. Substantive corrections are made on the page itself rather than quietly dropped.
How this site is funded
Some articles link to products on Amazon. As an Amazon Associate this site earns from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Those links are the only revenue this site carries: there is no sponsored content, no paid placement, and no display advertising. Product picks are made by reading specifications and published measurements, not by testing the products.
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Related sites
SelfhostRealm is run alongside a small number of other single-topic sites:
- Docker Homelab - Docker Compose Stacks, Container Resource Limits & Macvlan Bridge Networks
- PrintLabGuide - Lab-grade guides for serious makers.
- MiniLabHQ - Big homelab, tiny footprint.
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