Every self-hosted service on a VPS eventually hits the same wall: you have three or four apps listening on different ports, you want clean subdomains instead o...
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Last month I needed to host a small internal control plane for one of our client projects — nothing fancy, just three services, a Postgres pod, and a job runn...
Last quarter I migrated three of our seven aggregator sites off Cloudflare Tunnel onto Pangolin running on a $7/month Hetzner VPS. The trigger was specific: Clo...
Three years ago, when I was setting up the first generation of our aggregator stack at Warung Digital Teknologi, I made a mistake that quietly cost me about 40 ...
I have been running self-hosted uptime monitoring on a $4.50/month Hetzner CX22 VPS for the last 18 months — initially to keep tabs on seven aggregator sites ...
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