Talk Python To Me #546: Self hosting apps for Python people
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Apr 27, 2026 
Alex Kretzschmar, Head of Developer Relations at Tailscale and co-founder of Linuxserver.io, shares his self-hosting roadmap. He highlights apps worth running at home like Immich and Home Assistant. Docker Compose, ZFS backups, and network tools like Tailscale come up as practical ways to keep control and reach services securely from anywhere.
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Self Hosted Analytics Preserve User Data Ownership
- Open-source self-hosted analytics like Plausible and Umami let you keep telemetry out of big ad platforms.
- Alex prefers analytics that store data in your control so it cannot feed larger profiling systems.
Block Ads At The DNS Level For Whole Home Privacy
- Run a network-level blocker like AdGuard Home or Pi-hole to improve privacy and performance across all devices.
- Alex maps DHCP to hand out the local AdGuard DNS so phones, TVs, and mobile apps get ad blocking on-network.
Take ZFS Snapshots Before Risky Upgrades
- Protect upgrades with filesystem snapshots and backups before risky operations.
- Alex recommends ZFS snapshots so you can mount a pre-upgrade snapshot and restore databases after incompatible migrations.