Hobby
€0/mo
For the casual data owner.
- Unlimited* storage (your disk decides)
- 1 media server, 1 photo library
- 99.5% uptime (your UPS decides)
- Community support (you, on a forum)
Start free — stay free
Your data. Your servers. Zero subscriptions.
The same experience the cloud companies sell you at €9.99/seat/month — except you own the hardware, the bits, and the 3 a.m. pager duty.
pricing
most self-hosted
Pro
€0/mo
For the serious household cloud.
- Everything in Hobby, plus orchestration
- Automated media pipeline (rules, not clicking)
- Offsite backups & tested restores
- Priority support (your own issue tracker)
Also free. Genuinely.
Max
€0/mo
For the one with GPUs.
- Everything in Pro, plus local LLM inference
- Hardware transcoding that feels native
- Dedicated "bare metal" (it is under your desk)
- 24/7 SLA (the blinking LEDs reassure you)
Free — but you'll buy a GPU anyway
All plans are free forever. The only costs are your hardware and the electricity — billing is handled exclusively by your power company, and their support is famously unresponsive.
the guides
Proxmox VE — the foundation
One machine, many islands: containers, VMs, ZFS, snapshots.
Komodo — Docker orchestration
Git-backed stacks and push-to-deploy across machines.
Local LLM inference & gateways
AI workloads on GPUs you actually own.
Photo management
A photo library that can't change its terms of service.
Backups that actually restore
Local snapshots plus offsite restic/borg, restore-tested.
Reverse proxy, certificates & auth
Expose services safely: TLS, auth layer, DNS.
Home networking & DNS
The unglamorous layer everything else stands on.
Start here
Why self-host, what it takes, and the rules that keep it sane.
Build your own cloud fortress.
Start with the foundation guide, end up owning your entire stack. No trial, no credit card, no Terms of Service surprise — just a weekend and a spare machine.
Start here