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Photos, notes, RSS and backups, all on one box that costs about two dollars a month to run. The hard part was never the software.

Restore one file at random, once a month. That is the whole practice, and it is the only reason I know my backups work.

Restore one file at random, once a month. That is the whole practice, and it is the only reason I know my backups work.

Six watts idle, x86, NVMe, and it costs what a Pi plus a decent power supply plus a case plus an SSD adapter costs. The Pi won on price for exactly one generation.

Photos, notes, RSS and backups, all on one box that costs about two dollars a month to run. The hard part was never the software.

Both are a third party you are trusting with your traffic. One of them is a company and the other one is a certificate authority, so choose which outage you would rather explain.

Nothing was wrong with the containers. I just noticed I was running a supervisor inside a supervisor, and only one of them could restart the machine.

Eight machines, a sound meter and a power meter. The quietest one was not the slowest, and the cheapest one drew twice the power of the next cheapest.

That stranger is you, tired, at the worst possible hour, with none of the context you have right now. Write the restore procedure for them, not for yourself.

An office thin client with 8GB of RAM. It has served every photo, every note and every DNS query in this house since 2023 and has been rebooted for kernel updates only.

Ninety-four percent inbox placement to the big three, after two months of warmup and one very unpleasant week with a shared IP block. Would I do it again: for a hobby domain, yes.

Every decision follows from that sentence: ECC, scrubs, two copies, one of them somewhere else. The enclosure and the fan noise are taste; that sentence is not.

Nineteen services. Four of them would be missed within a day, three more within a month, and the remaining twelve I keep running because deleting things feels like admitting something.