The best Homelab newsletters

Noted reviews self-hosted and open-source software for homelabs, with each issue walking through a specific tool, how it works, and how to deploy it. Readers get practical setup guidance, design trade-offs, and an honest look at the maintenance burden that comes with running your own services.

Short, first-person security notes covering newly disclosed vulnerabilities, patch targets and incident write-ups. Each issue gives the affected versions, who is exposed and a concise list of actions to take.

Sascha Bajonczak's blog covers enterprise integrations, AI, developer workflows and homelab builds, with hands-on write-ups of DIY hardware and practical IT archiving. Readers get concrete project walkthroughs and a considered take on how to describe human and AI contributions to content.

A personal tech blog with technical writeups on security, reverse engineering and homelab practice. Readers get detailed, referenced explanations of how things like contactless cards, Bluetooth devices and backup strategies actually work.

A personal blog covering home emergency preparedness, backup power and homelab infrastructure, written from hands-on experience on the Gulf Coast. Posts detail equipment choices, costs and lessons learned, including what did not work.

Technodabbler is a hobbyist technology newsletter covering hands-on builds such as 3D-printed small-form-factor PCs, NAS and homelab software comparisons, and gaming-related charity streams. Readers get practical project write-ups with hardware details, testing notes and an informal, personal voice.

Self Hosted Home UK is a personal newsletter covering Linux, homelabs, self-hosting and tech. Recent issues include a first-person account of solo mining Bitcoin Cash and DigiByte with a Bitaxe, reflections on cloud resilience after a Google Cloud outage, and an analysis of hardware wallet failures.

A German-language homelab blog by r0k covering self-hosted infrastructure: wildcard Let's Encrypt certificates for internal services, a central LiteLLM endpoint for local AI inference, and running local LLM agents on AMD GPUs. Readers get concrete, reproducible configs and setup walkthroughs, though the posts are written in English despite the German-sounding domain.

Greg's blog-style newsletter covers IT administration and homelab topics, including Veeam Data Cloud monitoring, reporting, and Microsoft 365 testing tools. Readers get hands-on walkthroughs of setting up Grafana dashboards, SIEM event integrations, and MCP-based reports, along with product release updates.

Chris Kirby, an engineering leader, writes practical walkthroughs on homelab networking, DNS high availability, and agentic AI development tooling. The newsletter offers hands-on technical guides and his personal reasoning about building tools for cost-effective AI-assisted coding.

Jason Tucker's blog covers homelab tech, automation and self-hosting with practical write-ups on tools like Immich and Quartermaster. Readers get firsthand reviews, hardware decisions explained from real setups, and interviews with developers in the self-hosting space.

Jorge Castro's blog-style newsletter mixes open source commentary, homelab tinkering with Flatcar Linux and Universal Blue, and personal opinions on email, careers and Linux desktops. Readers get opinionated takes and practical notes on Linux tooling, delivered in a casual, irreverent voice.

Practical step-by-step guides for self-hosting and homelab tools, including Docker deployments of Dashy and Dockhand and monitoring UPS hardware with NUT. Each issue walks through installation, configuration commands and troubleshooting pitfalls.

Bitby Systems is a technical blog-style newsletter with step-by-step guides on running software on Linux, building drivers in containers, and self-hosting applications. Each issue walks through concrete commands and configuration files, with notes on the author's own workarounds and troubleshooting.

A personal blog by a Seward, Alaska resident covering homelab tech, a self-hosted music server project, travel photos, and local nature and history. Recent posts include a short video and history note on Lowell Creek Canyon and its 1939 flood-control tunnel.

A personal blog by Krishnendu covering offensive security tooling he builds, such as a stealth network scanner and a PCAP analyzer, plus homelab guides like running Proxmox. Readers get practical, first-person write-ups on red team tools and self-hosted infrastructure setup.

Cerebral Voyage is a self-hosting newsletter with practical how-to guides on running containerized services, such as changing DNS providers for Let's Encrypt certificates in NGINX Proxy Manager, building OCI images through GitLab CI/CD, and containerizing the Ungit Git GUI. Readers get step-by-step instructions and the reasoning behind them, aimed at homelab administrators.

Step-by-step technical how-tos on embedded development and homelab tooling, including STM32 with VSCode and rootless Podman on Arch Linux LXC and Clear Linux. Each post gives concrete commands, configs and version details a reader can follow.

A weekly roundup of self-hosting news, software launches, updates and events, aimed at people who run their own services. The excerpts are mostly teasers behind a paywall, so the writing quality is hard to judge beyond the announcements shown.

A hobbyist's blog where manufacturing and automation experience carries over into home lab projects, with step-by-step configs for Caddy reverse proxying, self-hosted GitLab, and a Shadowsocks plus VLESS setup. Readers get copy-paste Docker Compose and server configuration examples, with brief rationale for each choice.