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Cheapest registrar for .com & .be when DNS lives on Cloudflare (2026)
Split the registrar: .com to Cloudflare/Porkbun at cost (~€10), .be to a cheap EU host (Strato/mijn.host/Combell) since neither at-cost registrar sells .be.
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Homelab & self-hosting
Self-hosted services and homelab infrastructure — NAS, Docker, monitoring, PR previews and media archiving.
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Self-hosted YouTube archivers: web UI, channel watching, and liked-video sync (2026)
TubeArchivist vs PinchFlat is the real decision — all six tools wrap yt-dlp, so the differentiators are UI depth, filter richness, and willingness to run Elasticsearch.
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Self-hosted vs cloud push notification gateways for Docker home labs (2026)
ntfy + Apprise is the composable self-hosted base; iOS forces a cloud relay unless you accept ntfy's APNs hop; Pushover is the pragmatic hybrid pick; WhatsApp and web push remain cloud-dependent in 2026.
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Self-Hosted PaaS for Homelab PR Previews: Decision Framework 2026
Only Coolify and Dokploy deploy PR previews natively; both bundle Traefik and demand dedicated VM isolation from your existing proxy — the full decision framework across six options on ten criteria.
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Self-Hosted YouTube Archiver for Jellyfin (2026)
Critical auth requirements (PO tokens, Firefox-only cookies) and Jellyfin TV-show naming contracts researched; the tool comparison matrix and deploy config were not completed and require a follow-up run.
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Git-native uptime monitoring for a Docker Compose + Traefik homelab (2026)
Gatus is the only candidate where the full monitor set lives in a committed YAML file — no GUI clicks, no SQLite state escaping git, 40 MB RAM. Migration from Kuma is manual but tractable; the main traps are Kuma v2's removed JSON export and Traefik's CVE-2026-44774.
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Stay or migrate: homelab dashboard decision 2026
Homepage wins all decisive criteria for a Proxmox/Docker gitops homelab — 6/6 target integrations, pure-YAML config-as-code, 80 MB lean footprint — with Glance as the only credible challenger to watch.
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Replacing a Synology NAS in 2026: hardware, OS, migration, and remote access
End-to-end framework to leave a Synology NAS in 2026: a hardware shortlist by profile, OS/storage picks scored on lock-in, a DSM migration playbook, and a default remote-access stack — converging on one concrete recommended build.