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 ...
If you run your own Git server on a VPS — Forgejo, Gitea, or plain GitLab CE — the next question always lands within a week: where do the builds run? Pushin...
When I started looking at self-hosted alternatives for the AI features inside our internal stack — specifically SmartExam (an AI question generator), DocSumm ...
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...
Connecting a fleet of VPS instances that span Hostinger shared, Hetzner cloud, and a couple of bare-metal boxes used to mean port-forwards, IP allowlists, and t...
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...
Three years ago, when I was setting up the first generation of our aggregator stack at Warung Digital Teknologi, I made a mistake that quietly cost me about 40 ...
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 ...
If you're running Redis on a VPS in 2026, you've probably hit the same crossroads I did six months ago: Redis went AGPLv3, your hyperscaler quietly migrated to ...
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'...
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 ...
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...
GitHub Apparently Cannot Hit Three Nines of Uptime — So I Built a Git Failover Strategy and Here Is Exactly How You Can Too Last Tuesday, around 2:30 PM East...
I Set Up a Remote Dev Environment With an AI Coding Agent on a $12 VPS — And Now I Cannot Go Back to Local Development Three weeks ago, my MacBook's SSD star...
I have been running into the same wall for over a year now: my GPU has 24GB of VRAM, the model I want to load needs 32GB, and buying a new card costs more than ...
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...
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...
Ben Zimmermann was poking around vuejs.org last October when he found something that should not have been there: an Algolia API key with full admin permissions ...