# homelab

A deep, opinionated look at self-hosting Prometheus: how the pull model and local TSDB actually work, real monthly costs, where your metrics live, and the honest limitations nobody puts on the landing page.

A deep, honest look at CasaOS: the lightweight personal-cloud OS that turns a spare mini-PC, old laptop, or Raspberry Pi into a self-hosted home server. We cover how it works, what it costs to run, where your data actually lives, and the limitations nobody puts on the landing page.

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.

A 80k-star, GPL-3.0 monitoring agent that collects every metric every second, runs machine learning on your own hardware, and keeps your telemetry on your infrastructure. Here is the honest deep-dive: architecture, real self-hosting cost, data sovereignty, and where it falls short.

Uptime Kuma is the MIT-licensed, single-container uptime monitor with 89,000+ stars and 90+ alert channels. Here's how it works, what it really costs, where your monitoring data lands, and the single-instance limits you must plan around.