10 quality-of-life services I self-host on my home lab

Building a self-hosted application suite not only saves you hundreds of dollars in subscription fees, but you also get better privacy when running services on local hardware. Not to mention, there’s a ton of cool utilities you can experiment with once you take the plunge into the home server rabbit hole. If you’re into coding, you can deploy containers for Code Server, IT-Tools, and Gitea to aid your programming workloads. Meanwhile, gamers have the option of putting together private servers and ROM libraries on their local battle stations.