I have spent the last six weeks running Plane, OpenProject, and Leantime side-by-side on the same Hostinger KVM 4 VPS — 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, NVMe — and rotat...
PostgreSQL 18 shipped on September 25, 2025, and the headline feature — asynchronous I/O — is the first reason in years to seriously plan a same-week upgrad...
Six months ago I migrated a Photography Studio Manager client's 11-year contract archive — about 18,400 scanned PDFs, model releases, invoices, and shoot brie...
Self-hosting your photo library used to be a nerd hobby. After Google Photos quietly tightened its free storage in 2021 and Apple kept nudging iCloud subscriber...
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 ...
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...
A few weeks ago, my friend Kat — who runs a small Etsy shop that somehow grew into a real business — called me in mild panic. "James, I am paying $47 a mont...