Self-hosting without losing the weekend
Tomas Reed·
A short field note from someone who has lost several weekends.
Pick one machine you already understand. Put one service on it. Give it a name, a backup, and a way to reach it from the couch. Then stop.
The trap is composing a cathedral of containers before you have a door. DNS, certificates, logs, and the first restore test matter more than the seventh microservice.
If you have a stack that stayed boring for a year, write it down here. Boring is the product.