A complete guide to ProbeDeck, a single-container, self-hosted platform that runs network probes from your own vantage points, turns them into monitors with alerts and incidents, and shows it all on a dashboard, a public status page, and across multiple geographic agents.
Home Lab Overview: Alecto and Friends I’ve always enjoyed tinkering with operating systems and finding ways they improve day-to-day life. I’m not a cloud hater. Cloud services are useful and I still use them. I self-host because it’s fun. With most SaaS tools, you’re limited by design choices you had no part in. My biggest self-hosted system is a Plex machine. I watch what I want, how I want, for roughly the cost of electricity. There’s also been a serious learning component: networking, security, general IT practice. That alone has made it worth running. ...