Published May 11, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration, troubleshooting weird problems, and using open-source tools in the real world. He also works a lot with Windows systems and networking, especially in mixed environments where things don't always behave the way the documentation says they should. Writing things down is how he makes sense of it all and hopefully saves someone else a few hours. The idea of having everything running locally has always appealed to me. I swap in a self-hosted alternative for any service that'll take one. It allows me to avoid a lot of monthly fees, it keeps my data off of third-party servers, and I don't need to rely on someone else's service being available.…