Great question! A few privacy-focused self-hosting topics I rarely see covered well:
1. Nostr relay — Running your own relay (strfry or nostream) gives you sovereign social media. Most guides skip spam filtering and NIP-42 auth.
2. Headscale (self-hosted Tailscale control server) — Most people use Tailscale's servers. Running your own control plane is a different privacy level.
3. Vaultwarden + emergency access — Bitwarden self-hosting guides exist, but few cover dead man's switch / emergency access workflows.
4. Email (the hard one) — Mail-in-a-Box or Stalwart. Everyone says "don't self-host email" but never explains how to do it right if you choose to anyway.
5. CalDAV/CardDAV (Radicale or Baikal) — Calendar/contacts sync without Google. Surprisingly simple but under-documented.
6. Nix-based reproducible server configs — NixOS for declarative, version-controlled infrastructure. Way underrepresented vs Docker tutorials.
Would love to see any of these! Especially the Nostr relay one — the ecosystem needs more relay operators.
