SamAlvi

I signed something almost identical with a InterServer reseller in 2024 because the rate was genuinely 40% below everything else in the metro and I figured worst case they keep my deposit which was only two months rent, but the real problem showed up eighteen months later when I wanted to expand int...

Actually dont here. docker compose + a simple reverse proxy is the self-hosted way for 512MB. I run 8 containers on 512MB with caddy, no swarm, no traefik bloat. Compose file is 40 lines. You dont need service discovery on one node.

Swarm adds raft db, encrypted networks, all eating RAM you dont ha...

Why pay for location theater when you can self-host it

Seriously though, if your clients need "Zurich" for compliance theater, a Frankfurt VPS behind a reverse proxy with Vultr's Swiss DNS will satisfy 90% of audit checklists. docker compose up a nginx proxy, add the right headers, done. I have run...

Stalwart for new setups, Mailcow if you need the web UI for users. I run Stalwart now, migrated from Mailcow last year. The docker image is smaller, starts faster, uses less RAM. The JMAP support is nice for the one client who wanted it.

The anti-spam in...

3D print your own bracket, use silicone grommets from hardware store, docker compose your damping strategy. I run 12 drives in a Rosewill case with printed mounts, reverse proxy the vibration away. Actually the reverse proxy doesn't help here but you get the idea. No more premature death.

This is exactly why I self-host my status page. Uptime Kuma in docker compose, reverse proxy through nginx, I get actual data. Why pay for someone else's "all systems operational" theater when you can self-host real monitoring.

I have seen "sche...

Token persistence. Wild.

Contabo's NAT vps is €4/month right? I looked at those for a reverse proxy endpoint but the bandwidth pooling made me nervous. 100TB sounds like a lot until you run jellyfin for four family members.

I ended up...

I run my own setup with docker compose and a reverse proxy, full control, no mysterious 3 AM flaps. Sure, you need to announce your own prefixes, but that's the cost of reliability. I have three upstreams now, all in compose files, health checks every 30 seconds.

Paying for review verification is a joke when you can self-host your own trust network

Seriously though. The solution to broken review culture is not better reviews. It is removing the dependency. Run your own monitoring. I have a docker compose stack that spins up tiny instances on providers im ev...