# Privacy

A no-fluff, 5000-word self-hosting teardown of PostHog — what it is, where your event data actually lives, the real compute and storage bill, and the honest limitations of running it yourself.

A deep, honest look at self-hosting Activepieces — the open-source, AI-native automation platform. Where your data lives, what it really costs to run, and the limitations nobody puts on the landing page.

"PeerTube turns video hosting inside out: instead of one company owning every upload, you run your own instance, federate with others over ActivityPub, and let viewers share bandwidth with P2P playback. Here is the honest, numbers-first guide to self-hosting it."

A deep, opinionated walkthrough of Appsmith — the Apache-2.0 low-code platform for building internal tools, admin panels, and dashboards — focused on self-hosting, real cost numbers, data sovereignty, and the honest limitations nobody puts on the landing page.

A deep, honest teardown of NetBird — the open-source, AGPL-licensed WireGuard overlay network you can self-host end to end. We cover how it works, real hosting costs, where your data actually goes, and the limitations nobody puts on the front page.

A clear-eyed tour of self-hosting Seafile: how its library model and delta sync work, the real monthly cost of running it, exactly where your files end up, and the limitations that matter before you migrate off Dropbox.

Listmonk is a single Go binary backed by PostgreSQL that runs your newsletter, mailing lists, and transactional email on your own hardware. No per-subscriber pricing, no data leaving your jurisdiction — but deliverability is now your problem. A 5000-word deep dive on costs, limits, and data sovereignty.

Nginx Proxy Manager puts a friendly web UI over Nginx so anyone can expose self-hosted services on clean hostnames with free SSL. We cover the architecture, real costs, honest limits, and exactly what the proxy sees.

Memos is a single-binary, MIT-licensed note server you own completely. We dig into its architecture, real hosting costs, honest limitations, and exactly where your data lives when you self-host it.