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Nextcloud, Seafile, OpenCloud or ownCloud: who owns your file storage
Comparisons of self-hosted file storage usually end at feature lists and sync speed. Both are measurable and both are secondary to the decision. The reason...
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Zabbix, Checkmk, Prometheus or Netdata: monitoring compared 2026
Monitoring comparisons usually list features side by side and arrive at the conclusion that all candidates do essentially the same thing. That misleads, because the...
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Mailcow, Stalwart or Mailu: self-hosted mail servers compared
The self-hosted mail server is the emblem of sovereign IT and at the same time the service where self-hosting most often goes wrong. Not because...
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Documenso or DocuSeal: electronic signing on your own infrastructure
Electronic signing is one of the areas where moving from a cloud provider to your own solution is particularly obvious: it concerns contracts, precisely the...
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Open-source licence changes: the chronicle and what operators must do
Since 2018 a series of well-known open-source projects have changed licence, mostly away from a recognised open-source licence toward a model with restrictions. Two have...
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MinIO is archived: self-hosted S3-compatible storage compared
For years MinIO was the default answer to self-hosted S3-compatible storage. That answer no longer holds: the public repository is archived and the last push...
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