First of all, thanks a ton.

I have been using SearxNG for more than year, running it as docker container on my Homelab. It’s connected to internet via Mullvad VPN.

Lately, I have see both Google and Bing search engines are either not working or returning complete garbage results.

My firewall setup doesn’t allow any incoming connection to homelab, except from LAN. So, bot accessing my SearxNG instance might not be the issue.

With degoog installed in the same fashion (docker + VPN), google engine seems to be unblocked for me (so far).

Not sure why degoog is not getting rate limited like SearxNG on the same system and same VPN. But, at least I’m happy :)

Tailscale, if you don’t want to make your services available to anyone else than you (and people you want to grant access to).

Thumb rule: whichever I feel comfortable with in a given situation, I use.

https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/blob/develop/contrib/docker/docker-compose.yml

At workplace, use whatever OS and tools allowed by company policy.

At home, use whatever OS and tools you like.

At least that is how I’m managing it.

Isn’t Podman rootless by default, unlike docker?

All the countries need to use ‘Open sourced’ product, IMO.

Thanks a lot :)

From developers point of view, maintaining one codebase that works across OSs is better than maintaining OS specific multiple codebases.

Nice. After Bilbogram was discontinued, I believe we all were waiting for an replacement.

• AdguardHome
• Nextcloud
• Redlib
• DrawIO
• Wireguard
• Matrix server
• SearxNG
• Jellyfin
• LibMedium
• Linkwarden
• IT-tools
• Vaultwarden
• Memos
• Miniflux
• Rimgo
• Invidious
• Quetre
• Anonymously Overflow

All except few are routed via VPN.

Hosted on: Raspberry Pi 4B + Alienware M14x R2

I had to sell my kidney to buy one RAM yesterday /s

Ubuntu 25.10 + Wayland + Gnome 49 + Nvidia driver v580.95 (RTX 3070 Ti) works flawlessly for both gaming and normal apps.

Anything other than rolling release, as stability matters more when you are dealing with server setup. So, Ubuntu LTS, Debian should be good fit.

My 12 years old Alienware M14x R2 [1] is doing great as a homelab. I have the following services running on rootless docker container:

1. Nextcloud AIO
2. Element
3. AdguardHome
4. Jellyfin
5. SearxNG
6. Vaultwarden
7. … and few other services as well

So far, I managed to utilized around ~6 GB out 16 GB RAM. Throughput wise, it is doing great (over LAN and over Tailscale).

If you have any old laptop unutilized, you may try to repurpose it as one of your homelabs.

[1]https://dl.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_laptop/esuprt_alienware_laptops/alienware-m14x-r2_reference guide_en-us.pdf

You are most likely using Cloudflared together with pi-Hole.

You may want to check-out AdGuardHome (open source) which has out-of-the-box DOH support.

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

I’m running SearxNG as rootless docker container on my homelab for nearly 2 years now. I have connected it to Internet via VPN.

Use a reverse proxy like Traefik to access your services via subdomain like paperless.yourdomain.com.

The advantage of that approach is you will be connected to Traefik on port either 443 or 80 (based on your Traefik setup). Most firewall will allow connection to port 443 or 80.

docker-ce v29 update somehow messed up my homelab so badly that I had to downgrade to v28 to restore my system.

Sorry, I just noticed that now.