Demystifying Cloud in a Bottle: A New Approach to the Self-Hosted Stack
Introduction to the Modern Self-Hosting Frontier Self-hosting has long been the domain of the dedicated sysadmin, characterized by endless Docker Co…
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Optimizing for the 8GB Barrier: Strategic Model Selection for Local AI
Navigating the 8GB Hardware Landscape in 2026 For most developers, the dream of running a powerful Large Language Model (LLM) at home is not about s…
llama.cpp vs Ollama in 2026: Which Runtime Should You Run?
Ollama and llama.cpp are often compared as if they were rival inference engines. The real choice is between a managed model service and a toolkit yo…
Migrated Up, Then Back
Over a few weeks I moved seven self-hosted services onto Kubernetes — ArgoCD, supply-chain policy, the whole GitOps loop — and then, on one afternoo…
Scheduling every job on a GPU that can only hold one model
A Raspberry Pi 5 runs DNS for the network, plus dozens of other small services that don't need much CPU or memory but can't go down. A Jetson Orin N…
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…
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…
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…
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 in…
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…
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 o…