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If you have ever stared at a Railway or Render invoice and thought "I could run this myself for the price of a coffee," you are exactly the person these three t...
Every few months a client asks me the same question: "We're tired of WordPress — what headless CMS should we self-host?" In the last year alone I've stood up ...
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Anyone running production workloads on a VPS in 2026 hits the same wall eventually: SSH-ing into the box, tailing /var/log/syslog, and grepping through scattere...
I spent the last three months running Documenso, Docuseal, and OpenSign side-by-side on the same Hetzner CPX21 VPS (3 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, $9.42/month) to figure out...
When I built the embeddings layer for SmartExam AI Generator last quarter — a tool that turns curriculum PDFs into question banks — I needed a vector store ...
I run seven aggregator sites on Hostinger plus a separate VPS for heavier automation, and over the last 18 months I've moved most of my cross-site glue work fro...
When GitHub went dark for the third time in 18 months last quarter, our deployment pipelines across seven aggregator sites froze mid-push. That was the day I fi...
TL;DR — which one I would deploy today If you have less than 2 GB free RAM on a typical $7 KVM VPS and you need full-text search with typo tolerance for a web...
Across the seven aggregator sites I run on Hostinger shared and a handful of VPS boxes, I keep coming back to the same question: when does SQLite stop being a "...
Last December, I ran a hard test on my own backup setup. I picked the smallest of the seven aggregator sites I run, deleted the entire public_html directory on ...
Self-hosted email is one of those projects that sounds romantic until you spend a Saturday troubleshooting why Outlook is rejecting your DKIM signature. I've ru...
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Someone published a dataset last week showing 7,655 confirmed ransomware claims across one calendar year. Broken down by group, sector, country. I spent an hour...
At 10:53 AM on March 17, 2026, CISA — the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — added CVE-2025-47813 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilitie...
I lost everything on a Tuesday. Not dramatically — no fire, no flood, no Hollywood-worthy catastrophe. Just a database migration that went wrong at 2 AM, a r...