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See how ZimaOS turns first boot into a practical private cloud with phone photo backup and Jellyfin, while keeping storage and recovery decisions visible.

Prepare your family’s digital information for outages and emergencies. Learn how to build an offline information server for maps, documents, photos, medical records, backups, and other critical household files.

Celebrate Internet Day 2026 by building your own personal cloud for files, photos, backups, media, and self-hosted apps. Learn how to choose hardware, plan storage, enable secure remote access, protect your data, and grow from a...

Celebrate International Repair Day 2026 by giving retired hardware a second life. Learn how to turn an old laptop, desktop, mini PC, or workstation into a practical home server for backups, media, self-hosting, and more.

See how RG 4 Tech combines two-drive RAID 1 storage, ZimaOS and Home Assistant on ZimaBoard 2—and where redundancy still needs backup.

Thanks to cachito labs for documenting this thoughtful ZimaBoard 2 project. In his original build video, an ISP problem becomes a practical lesson in routing, firewall policy, DNS privacy, and VPN egress. The useful idea is...

See how SjslTech tests the redesigned App Store, system updates, Zima Nodes, and mobile file workflows introduced with ZimaOS v1.7.

See how ZimaOS 1.7 makes a growing self-hosted app library easier to discover, manage, configure, update, and troubleshoot.