Hosting Uptime Kuma in 2026: pricing and platform constraints
A guide to hosting Uptime Kuma on Ownkube, Fly.io, Railway, Render, or a VPS, with current pricing and technical requirements for persistent storage.
News for teams that run their own software
A daily digest on self-hosting, DevOps, security, document AI and HR tech. Each story is summarized, explains why it matters and links to the original publisher.
Synology urges DSM updates after C3RB3R ransomware exploits old flaws
Synology warns users to patch DiskStation Manager immediately as C3RB3R ransomware targets devices running outdated firmware with known vulnerabilities.
Chainstack breach exposes customer data via AI-powered attack campaign
Blockchain provider Chainstack confirmed a security incident where attackers accessed production systems and customer password hashes through a third-party component.
Why a 200 OK health check can hide a total service outage
A cached GET request returned success while the origin server was down, causing all buyer submissions to fail silently for hours.
Silent failure: how a metadata check blocked all inference jobs
A red-team test revealed that an expired token in a metadata endpoint caused every job to fail, while health checks reported the system as healthy.
Automating chaos engineering failover tests in AWS CI/CD pipelines
A new guide details how to integrate AWS Fault Injection Service into CodePipeline to automatically verify service recovery after task failures.
Survival LLM brings offline AI and Wikipedia to local servers
Survival LLM packages 1.5 million articles and a local AI assistant into an offline library for emergency preparedness and self-hosted knowledge retrieval.
BoxBox offers a lightweight self-hosted file manager for Linux servers
BoxBox is a new self-hosted file manager that provides a web interface for managing files on Linux servers without the complexity of full cloud suites.
Attackers abuse AD CS and Teams social engineering to steal data
Microsoft reports two intrusions where attackers posed as IT support on Teams, gained remote access, and exploited insecure Active Directory Certificate Services settings to issue privileged certifica
n8n 3.0 drops npm installs and breaks legacy workflow nodes
The upcoming n8n 3.0 release removes npm support, enforces Docker, and deprecates key nodes like Function and Cron, requiring immediate migration planning for self-hosted users.
Choosing the right catch-up policy for missed cron jobs
When servers reboot during scheduled tasks, silent skips or massive backlogs can cause data loss or API bans. Learn how to configure systemd, Kubernetes, and custom scripts to handle missed runs corre
New DeepSeek Harness plugins add mail, phone, and encrypted channels
Developer Loukas Tzekos released twelve MIT-licensed plugins for DeepSeek Harness, adding email, telephony, and enhanced security features to the self-hosted AI platform.
Proxmox VE 9 replaces HA groups with flexible placement rules
Proxmox VE 9 introduces HA rules for node and resource affinity, replacing legacy groups. This guide covers fencing, watchdogs, and testing failover safely.
Levelrail adds digest pinning and auto-rollback for Docker deploys
The Levelrail platform now pins image digests to prevent tag drift and supports automatic rollbacks based on error rates after cutover.
Hush Relay offers experimental self-hosted encrypted messaging via PHP
A new open-source project enables private, end-to-end encrypted chat using a single PHP file and a browser-based app, requiring no accounts or complex infrastructure.
