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checking manifests and recipes…
✔ Schema valid
✔ Environment documented
✔ Smoke test metadata valid
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Every guide is a set of recipes picked for one situation, with the reason each one is there and the filters that produced it. Below them, the whole catalog by category and by the service you would be replacing.
6 applications
A home server that earns its keep
Six recipes that turn a spare machine into something the household actually uses: a password vault, network-wide filtering, file sync, uptime checks and a media library.
7 applications
Everything that fits into 1 GB of RAM
The recipes that run comfortably on the cheapest VPS or an old thin client — what they cost in memory, and where the number stops being the whole story.
6 applications
What a Raspberry Pi can actually run
Recipes with 32-bit ARM images and a memory budget a Pi can meet — plus the two hardware decisions that matter more than the application you pick.
6 applications
Services that never need a public address
Recipes designed to stay on the local network: what they give up by not being published, and why that is usually the safer trade.
Verification log
Recently checked recipes
The date is the last real run of the smoke test, not the day the page was edited.
Actual BudgetVersion 26.9.0
Fully verifiedRecheck overdue · 0 dCheck is currentCheck historyForgejoVersion 16.0.3
Fully verifiedRecheck overdue · 0 dCheck is currentCheck historyFreshRSSVersion 1.29.1
Fully verifiedRecheck overdue · 0 dCheck is currentCheck historyGiteaVersion 1.27.3
Fully verifiedRecheck overdue · 0 dCheck is currentCheck historyLinkwardenVersion v2.16.2
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Follow the guide, configure backups, and keep a rollback plan.