Published Jun 12, 2026, 4:31 PM EDT Shekhar Vaidya is a veteran technology journalist and computer science engineer. He is the founder of TechLatest, where he has spent years providing technical analysis on hardware and Windows ecosystems. Now a Computing Writer at XDA, Shekhar leverages his deep background in NAS, storage solutions, and PC internals to help readers master their tech. When people talk about self-hosting, it's usually around media servers, photo backups, and cloud storage replacements. And I agree, those are important, and that’s why I built my own home server in the first place. But a home server can run dozens of containers and still feel surprisingly amateur. Not because the applications themselves are bad, but because managing them often requires a lot of guesswork. Over time, I have experimented with several tiny utility containers that made my server feel more mature, and I eventually settled on four.…