https://arran4.github.io/blog/tags/homepage/Recent content in homepage on Arrans Technical blogHugo -- gohugo.ioentechnicalblog123@arran4.com (Arran Ubels)technicalblog123@arran4.com (Arran Ubels)Arran Ubels. This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:13:59 +1000https://arran4.github.io/blog/post/2026/036-self-hosted-start-pages/Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:13:59 +1000technicalblog123@arran4.com (Arran Ubels)https://arran4.github.io/blog/post/2026/036-self-hosted-start-pages/Self-hosted start pages tend to look interchangeable from a distance: a grid of links, a search box, perhaps some status cards, and a convenient place to start a browser session. Their configuration models are much less interchangeable. That distinction matters if the dashboard itself is treated as infrastructure. A start page containing fifty or a hundred carefully grouped links is already a useful data set. Once it also contains service credentials, status widgets, Docker discovery rules, layout choices, icons, tabs, permissions and user-specific state, moving to another application can become a migration project rather than a configuration change.