How I Host

Not long ago, my online presence was served variously by Heroku, Fly, AWS, GCP, and GitHub Pages. This evolved organically, over a decade, and became a recipe for unpredictable, expensive sadness. Meanwhile, the world marched on. My home gigabit fiber proved to be remarkably stable. Its uptime over the past year absolutely trounced GitHub. The answer was clear: I had to run a server at home. My read is that there are, roughly, two types of home server admins in the world: those that want to experiment with every shiny tech toy under the sun, and those that want soulless set-and-forget. Spoiler alert: I'm in the boring bucket. If you'd like to be regaled with tales of Raspberry Pi k8s clusters, high-availability Proxmox configs, or obscure Tailscale topologies... well, Reddit is your friend. Most of my websites had long since served their purpose and remained online only through inertia. My first step was to shut down everything I didn't want to maintain. Deleting websites, like…