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Installing LocalAI as a Stack on Portainer (with NVIDIA GPU Support & Preloaded Models) Running local AI models has become a practical alternative to cloud APIs, especially for privacy, cost control, and compliance. With tools like LocalAI, you can host your own AI inference server and expose it via an OpenAI-compatible API fully under your […]
In modern IT environments, identity has quietly become the most important security boundary in any organisation. Firewalls, network segmentation, and endpoint protection still matter, but the majority of security decisions now revolve around one central question: who is this user, and what should they be allowed to access? As organisations adopt cloud platforms, SaaS tools, […]
As more organisations adopt self-hosted infrastructure, it has become increasingly common for both small and medium-sized businesses and homelab operators to run their own internal services. Modern virtualisation platforms, container environments, and affordable server hardware make it possible to deploy powerful applications without relying entirely on cloud services. However, while deploying new services has become […]
If you’re running services on a home server, VPS, or self-hosted environment, one of the first problems you’ll encounter is how to access everything cleanly and securely from the internet. You might start by accessing services through IP addresses and ports like: http://192.168.1.10:3000 http://192.168.1.10:8080 http://192.168.1.10:8123 This works at first, but it quickly becomes messy, hard […]
