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Self-Hosting Ideas for a Spare Raspberry Pi

A running list of services that earn their RAM on a small home server.

Proven

  • Uptime Kuma — lightweight status monitoring with a nice UI
  • Syncthing — folder sync without a cloud middleman
  • Pi-hole — network-wide ad blocking

On the shortlist

  • Immich — self-hosted photos, the current favorite to replace cloud albums
  • Paperless-ngx — scan once, find forever

Retired

  • A full Nextcloud instance. It worked, but I only ever used two features.

Hugo Cheatsheet for This Site

Quick reference for the commands and file layout I keep forgetting.

Commands

hugo server -D      # dev server, include drafts
hugo --gc           # production build into public/

Where things live

Path Purpose
content/posts/ blog posts
content/notes/ reference notes
data/menu/extra.yaml header/footer menu entries
themes/hugo-geekblog/ theme (git submodule)

Remember

The theme must be built once after a fresh clone:

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