Black Friday 2026 Storage Deals: Drives, UPS And Plex Hardware Worth Buying
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Incogni Review (2026): Is It Worth It for Data Hoarders Who Value Privacy?
Incogni is a data-broker removal service from Surfshark. We break down how it works, what it can and can’...
NordVPN Review (2026): Is It Worth It for Usenet and Home Servers?
NordVPN is a premium VPN from Nord Security built for privacy-focused home-server users. We test its NordLynx ...
The Ultimate Guide to DIY NAS Builds for Data Hoarders
Building your own NAS is significantly cheaper and more capable than buying a prebuilt box from Synology or QN...
How to Build a DIY NAS with SnapRAID and MergerFS
SnapRAID MergerFS is a Linux storage combination that pools multiple independent hard drives into one large mo...
SnapRAID vs Unraid: Which is Better for Data Hoarders?
In the SnapRAID vs Unraid comparison, SnapRAID is a free, open-source, command-line parity tool that protects ...
What is SnapRAID? The Ultimate Backup Tool for Data Hoarders
SnapRAID is a free, open-source backup program for disk arrays that stores parity data on dedicated drives so ...
How to Setup GPU Passthrough for Plex in Unraid
Unraid GPU passthrough Plex is the process of handing a dedicated NVIDIA card or an Intel Quick Sync iGPU dire...
Unraid Setup Guide: How to Install and Configure Your First Array
Unraid is a NAS operating system that boots from a USB flash drive and combines mixed-size hard drives into a ...
Unraid Parity vs Cache Drives Explained for Beginners
An Unraid parity drive is a dedicated disk that stores a mathematical calculation (not files) across every dat...
How to Set Up Tailscale on Unraid for Secure Remote Access
Unraid Tailscale is the pairing of an Unraid server with the official Tailscale plugin, creating a private Wir...
Top 10 Best Unraid Plugins for Home Labs in 2026
The best Unraid plugins are lightweight, community-maintained add-ons that bolt directly into the Unraid web i...
How to Use Docker Compose on Unraid (Setup Guide)
Unraid Docker Compose is a plugin-based way to define, deploy, and manage multi-container stacks on your Unrai...
Unraid vs Synology: Build vs Buy for Data Hoarders
Unraid vs Synology comes down to one choice: Unraid is a licensed operating system you install on hardware you...
Newsbin Pro Review: An Archival Usenet Client
Newsbin Pro is a Windows-based Usenet newsreader built for browsing, searching, downloading, and repairing bin...
AltHUB Review: NZB Indexing for Digital Archives
AltHUB is an NZB indexer, a search platform that catalogs posts made to Usenet newsgroups and produces NZB fil...
abNZB Review: An Indexer for Digital Archives
abNZB is a Newznab-based NZB indexer that lets Usenet users search, browse, and retrieve NZB files for buildin...
Binsearch Review: Is Raw Usenet Search Still Relevant?
Binsearch (binsearch.info) is a free, open-access Usenet search engine that crawls binary newsgroups and lets ...
How to Read Text Newsgroups with Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open-source email and newsgroup client that connects to Usenet news servers usi...
What is NNTP? The Protocol That Powers Usenet
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP): The application-layer TCP/IP protocol that governs how Usenet articles ...
The History of Usenet: Before the World Wide Web
Usenet is one of the oldest surviving distributed communication systems on the internet, and most people have ...
Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: Which DNS Ad Blocker is Best?
Pi-hole and AdGuard Home are both free, self-hosted DNS ad blockers that filter unwanted domains at the networ...
Pi-hole Setup Guide: Network Ad Blocking Without DNS Leaks
Pi-hole is a network-wide DNS sinkhole that intercepts ad and tracker requests before they reach your devices,...
How to Test Your VPN Connection: DNS Leaks & Kill Switches
A DNS leak test checks whether your DNS queries are traveling outside your VPN‘s encrypted tunnel, potentially...
UsenetWire Review: The Best Free Newsreader for Beginners?
UsenetWire is the official integrated newsreader bundled with TweakNews, a Dutch Usenet provider. It gives sub...
UsenetServer Global Search: Is It Better Than an Indexer?
UsenetServer Global Search is a proprietary, web-based Usenet search tool bundled into every UsenetServer subs...
Easynews Web Search Guide: Usenet Without a Newsreader
Easynews search is the web-based Usenet search engine built directly into the Easynews platform, letting you f...
How to Use the Newshosting Newsreader (Setup & Review)
The Newshosting Newsreader is a bundled Usenet client included with every Newshosting subscription, giving you...
AirVPN Review: The Best Port Forwarding Alternative to Mullvad?
AirVPN is a privacy-focused VPN built and operated by Italian activists, offering robust port forwarding, deep...
Mullvad VPN Review: Still Worth It Without Port Forwarding?
Mullvad VPN is a privacy-first virtual private network service based in Gothenburg, Sweden, operated by Amagic...
PrivadoVPN Review 2026: The Best VPN for Usenet?
PrivadoVPN is a Swiss-based, no-logs VPN that offers AES-256 encryption, support for WireGuard, OpenVPN, and I...
Self-Hosting Local AI (Ollama) on Your NAS for Private Tagging
Self-hosting Ollama on a NAS means running a local large language model inference server entirely on your own ...
On-Premises Data Repatriation: The Local 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
The 3-2-1 backup strategy is a data protection framework where you maintain three total copies of your data, s...
Top Self-Hosted Server Dashboards: Beszel vs Homarr vs Homepage
A self-hosted dashboard is a web-based landing page you run on your own hardware or VPS that centralizes links...
Unraid ZFS Hybrid Pools & NVMe Cache Setup Guide
Unraid ZFS Hybrid Pools & NVMe Cache Setup Guide: A plain-language breakdown of how ZFS pools, cache pools...
Prowlarr Ultimate Setup & Sync Guide for Home Labs
Prowlarr is a centralized indexer management tool, also called an API synchronization hub, that lets you confi...
4-Bay vs 8-Bay NAS Enclosures: When Should You Upgrade?
Choosing between a 4-bay and an 8-bay NAS enclosure is one of those decisions that feels small until you run o...
How to Route Sonarr and SABnzbd Through a Gluetun VPN Container
Gluetun is a lightweight VPN client that runs as its own Docker container, acting as a network gateway that ot...
Tailscale vs Cloudflare Tunnels vs Reverse Proxies for Home Labs
Tailscale, Cloudflare Tunnels, and reverse proxies are three different tools for remotely accessing self-hoste...
SABnzbd Speed Optimization: How to Max Out 1Gbps Connections
SABnzbd speed optimization is the process of tuning SABnzbd’s server connections, memory cache, disk pipeline,...