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Posts about how and why to self host your own services

My personal cloud journey

My personal cloud journey

How I took ownership of my data and got off the public cloud

What's in a Cloud?

What's in a Cloud?

When I decided to begin hosting my own cloud services and get off Google, Microsoft, etc., the first thing I did was start documenting the things I absolutely needed. I ended up with a list of things that I think most people care about: * Email * Contacts * Calendar * File storage * Kanban

Dockron: Simple scheduling for Docker

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Dockron: Simple scheduling for Docker

What is Dockron? Dockron is a simple way to execute short-running containers on a schedule via Docker labels using minimal configuration.

Putting Faces to Names

Putting Faces to Names

Improving the self hosted experience by syncing Google and Gravatar profile photos to Nextcloud/ownCloud contacts

Minitor: A Minimal Monitoring Tool

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Minitor: A Minimal Monitoring Tool

If a service isn’t monitored, is it really running? The age old question. Since I started my voyage into self hosting, it had been mostly smooth sailing. That is, until the other day when, after about a year, I had my first server outage. The importance of knowing It

Building a self-hosted email assistant

Building a self-hosted email assistant

A little over a year ago I began my journey into self-hosting, and today I am off Google services. Initially, I had no issues giving up a few of the more minor features I couldn't replace. Things like auto identifying events, flight information, and package tracking in emails are each

Docker Orchestration from the Couch

Docker Orchestration from the Couch

When I decided to begin self hosting, I decided that I was going to do it with Docker [https://www.docker.com] very early on. Docker provides a good way for me to manage deployments without worrying about how different service dependencies might interact or how installation may vary depending

Self Hosting: But why tho?

Self Hosting: But why tho?

Why would I, or anyone for that matter, go through the effort of self hosting their own web services when Google, Apple, and Microsoft all have powerful, free options? Are we paranoid? Bored? Masochistic? Maybe, but for many of us it comes down to being free. To be clear, I'm

Lessons in Self Hosting

Lessons in Self Hosting

Several months ago, I decided to liberate myself from the corporate cloud ecosystem that I have been so heavily invested in. This was a decision based partly on political factors, but also heavily on my curiosity. I knew there would probably be trade offs, but I didn't know enough about