Run Docker Compose as a Linux Service with systemd
Docker Compose on a Linux server should start on boot, stop cleanly on shutdown, and survive reboots without manual intervention. Docker Compose is no…
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Self-Hosted vs. SaaS: What Coolify Actually Costs (and Where It Gets Expensive)
Your deploy stack is probably the worst-negotiated subscription in the whole company. Every server migration gets costed to three decimal places, but …
I turned my old gaming PC into a Linux server
Sometimes an upgrade is not about buying something new. Sometimes the better move is taking the thing that is already sitting there and giving it a be…
Self-Hosting Supabase on a Linux Server
Supabase has become one of the most popular open-source alternatives to Firebase, bundling a Postgres database, authentication, auto-generated REST an…
Self-host n8n on a VPS with Docker
n8n is the kind of tool you start using lightly and then quietly route half your operations through. At which point "it's running on someone's cloud s…
A mesh of old phones as bodies, LLM agents as minds — coordinating through a log they argue in
The shared log in my house has entries I didn't write. The agents write them to each other. Recent ones: "you keep saying 'don't be wrong' but this dr…
The 3-2-1 Backup Setup for Self-Hosters: restic + Backblaze B2
Originally published on byte-guard.net . TL;DR: A real backup is encrypted, off-site, and restore-tested. The fastest way to get all three on a self-h…
The 2026 Self-Hoster's Privacy Stack: every tool I actually pay for, configured end-to-end
Originally published on byte-guard.net . TL;DR: A working privacy stack in 2026 is not a single tool. It's seven decisions made in the right order. Mi…
The Open-Model Cost Chart Everyone's Sharing Is API Prices. Here's What Self-Hosting Actually Gets You (Measured)
There's a chart going around: intelligence on the y-axis, cost to run on the x-axis, and a green "most attractive" quadrant in the upper left where hi…
Turning a Base M4 Mac Mini Into an Always-On Automation Box
Originally published on danholloran.me For the last year, most of my personal automation has lived on my MacBook Air. Blog cross-posting, content inge…
SAN vs NAS for your home lab: which used storage to buy
If you're building out a home lab and need shared storage, you'll eventually hit the SAN vs NAS question. Both solve "storage that multiple machines c…
My complete self-hosting stack: Docker Compose + hardening scripts I use on Hetzner (sharing everything)
Originally written for r/selfhosted on Reddit — sharing here for the dev.to community. After running my self-hosted setup for 2+ years on a single Het…
I built one self-hosted boilerplate and now I ship everything on it
Every time I started a side project, I rebuilt the same five things before I wrote a single line of the actual idea: auth, a database, file uploads, a…
Setting Up OpenClaw on ZimaCube: It's Easier Than You Think
Spoiler: the machine was fine. My assumptions were not. Step 0: SSH Is Not Enabled by Default You will try to SSH into your ZimaCube Pro. It will refu…
Qwen 3.6 27B and 35B MTP vs Standard on 16GB GPU
I tested Speculative decoding (Multi-Token Prediction, MTP) performance in Qwen 3.6 27B and 35B on an RTX 4080 with 16 GB VRAM. For a broader view of …
Living on My Own Server: An Indie Hacker's Work-Life Balance
Living on My Own Server: An Indie Hacker's Work-Life Balance Running my own servers has been the foundation of both my work and personal projects for …