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...
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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...
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...
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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 ...
If you run more than three internal tools, you eventually hit the same wall I did: every dashboard wants its own login, your password manager turns into a junk ...
Last quarter I migrated three of our seven aggregator sites off Cloudflare Tunnel onto Pangolin running on a $7/month Hetzner VPS. The trigger was specific: Clo...
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...
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...
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...
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I have been running self-hosted password infrastructure for our team at Warung Digital Teknologi (wardigi.com) since late 2022. Across the 50+ client projects w...
Self-hosted analytics finally hit a tipping point in 2026. Between Google Analytics 4 fatigue, the post-April Core Update push toward verifiable first-party dat...
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...
Last December I shipped a small change to the way our 7 aggregator sites talk to MySQL, and within an hour two of them started returning 502s. The problem wasn'...
I have been running self-hosted uptime monitoring on a $4.50/month Hetzner CX22 VPS for the last 18 months — initially to keep tabs on seven aggregator sites ...
Three years ago I picked Nginx for everything because it was the default in every Laravel deployment guide I had ever read. Today I am running a mix of Caddy, N...
Why Your Choice of VPS Control Panel Actually Matters When I migrated the first three of my seven aggregator sites from Hostinger shared to VPS last year, the ...
Fly.io vs Railway vs Render 2026: Which PaaS Actually Holds Up in Production? I've deployed Laravel backends, Next.js frontends, and Node.js microservices acr...
The Short Answer Coolify — best for self-hosted PaaS with a broad ecosystem (the "Vercel on your own VPS" experience) Dokploy — best for resource-cons...
Best ARM VPS Hosting in 2026: Ampere Altra vs AWS Graviton — Who Wins? ARM-based servers have quietly taken over a significant chunk of cloud infrastructure....
Wednesday morning. 6:43 AM. I'm scrolling Hacker News while my instant noodles steep (yes, I eat instant noodles for breakfast — judge me later). A post with...
I Ran the Same Whisper Transcription Job on RunPod, GCP Cloud Run, and a $12 VPS — The Price Differences Will Make You Question Every Cloud Decision You Have ...
AMD just announced a CPU with 208 megabytes of cache. Two hundred and eight. I had to read the spec sheet three times because my brain kept autocorrecting it to...
LocalStack Just Killed Its Free Tier and I Almost Panicked — Then I Found Floci I got the email on a Monday morning. March 3rd, 2026. Coffee in hand, Slack a...
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...
Last month I needed to fine-tune a 7B parameter model on a custom dataset. Nothing crazy — about 50,000 training examples, LoRA adapter, roughly 8 hours of co...
Three months ago, around 10:30 PM on a Tuesday, I made a decision that my accountant would later describe as "creatively wasteful." I spun up identical servers ...
Let me tell you about the worst 14 minutes of my professional life. It was a Tuesday, around 3:47 PM, and I had just pushed a commit to a public repository that...
On March 12, 2026 at approximately 18:25 UTC, a threat actor operating under the handle ByteToBreach posted what they claimed to be the complete source code of ...
I'm going to say something that will make half the DevOps community angry: most startups should not be using Kubernetes. There. I said it. And before you close...
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...