Self-Hosting

I think I’ve finally figured it out. For now.

Ka-chow!

No way that this can go wrong. Not at all.

Who needs AI data centers when you can have this?

Future post on this blog: why my home server is ‘production’ now.

This experiment is brought to you by absurd memory prices.

I received a review sample of the LattePanda IOTA, here’s what I did to it.

Well, that’s a first.

No amount of tuning the backend service performance helped, and then I learned why. Oh no. Oh no no no no.

It has been 0 days since the last change to my home server.

When you’re too cheap to pay for an IPv4 address but you’d really like to monitor your services.

I was itching for a new project, so I got one.

It was moving day, but for my home server.

I’ve thought a lot about the performance, cost and power consumption trade-offs of home servers. Maybe too much.

Everything I learned from an incident that made me consider switching careers. It was a close one!

It’s not often when a piece of software has genuinely improved, which is why this is worth celebrating!

You have offsite backups of your most important data, right? Right???

My Wi-Fi kept dropping out until I learned about this fun little feature. Here’s how to fix it for good.

Turns out that using stable and performant computers as a home server is way too boring for me.

Look, ma, no downtime!

Yep.

The solution proposed might be a bit specific for my particular setup, but hopefully useful to someone out there.

My obsession with measuring the power consumption of my devices reached a whole new level.

A short explanation about what drives me to experiment with new hardware setups in my self-hosting hobby.

I gave in to my impulses and bought myself a small single board computer to be my power-efficient home server, here’s how it went.

Setting up a Steam LAN cache has never been this easy, so I went ahead and did some testing with different configurations.

This pegboard can fit so much compute power on it!

Does not apply if you like spam. No, not that one.

All of this could have been avoided if I didn’t insist on making backups of my Steam Deck.

I had the opportunity to talk about my self-hosting adventure and share some tech tips at k-space, the hackerspace in Tallinn, Estonia.

A short ramble about something I realized over the years with my self-hosting setup.

I got a LattePanda V1 and gave it a go as a Raspberry Pi replacement for my self-hosting setup. Here’s how it went.

The ThinkPad as a server is back, this time with a couple of adjustments.

I take a severely underpowered computer and make it do something useful.

Small and very efficient, but not quite ideal for all use cases. At least it hasn’t caught on fire yet!

I ramble about a tool that is great for taking regular snapshots on the btrfs filesystem.

I took a spare ThinkPad T430 and put all my home server workloads on it. Here’s how it went.

UPS, I did it again 🎵

Something is better than nothing.

Overview of basic analytics during that one time my blog post got traction on HackerNews, and the steps I took to prepare for just this occasion.

Honey, I shrunk my desktop PC!

Alternative title: “Honey, I completely changed my server setup again!”

Hosting your own Wikipedia instance has never been this easy!

Comparing the experience that AMD and NVIDIA can provide in a DIY cloud gaming setup.

A build log of how I set up my own ‘cloud gaming’ setup, including all the issues I faced and attempts to fix those.

If all you have is a powerful workstation…

Silence your hard drives with this one weird trick! System administrators hate him!

This is what happens when someone takes the meaning of ‘brute force’ too literally.

Getting started is probably the hardest step.

From repurposed old PC-s to the elusive minimum viable server.

Nostalgia is one hell of a drug.

$HOME wasn’t built in a day.

You have probably tried Stack Exchange and reddit at this point, so what do you have to lose?

How I slapped two hard drives on a long PCIe x1 card.

Maybe not stupid, but definitely stupid expensive.

It’s all good, man.