self-hosting One SQL view that tells me what is overdue across forty-odd trackers How a single UNION ALL view in NocoBase became the only list I read each morning, and the two things Postgres and NocoBase refused along the way.
self-hosting The house rules for adding one more app to a crowded VPS One folder, one compose file, a .env.example, a setup.sh that writes the secrets, and nothing in git that the server owns. The conventions I add apps by, and where each one came from.
self-hosting Bookmarks, feeds and books on one VPS, and how little I compared Why my reading stack is Karakeep, FreshRSS and Kavita, what the choice really rested on, and the parts I still haven't tested.
self-hosting Uptime Kuma on a single VPS: 23 monitors, three red, and why How I set up Uptime Kuma for a one-box self-hosted stack, which endpoints I point it at, how alerts reach my phone, why three monitors went red without anything being down, and the DNS app I kept off the box.
self-hosting I asked for a Notion clone and ended up living in NocoBase Why the database half of my Notion habit moved to a self-hosted NocoBase instead of a Notion look-alike, and what a day of building on it actually produced.
self-hosting I wanted my phone to buzz without running a mail server, so I picked ntfy Why ntfy beat Gotify, Pushover, Telegram and e-mail on my single VPS, how its users and tokens live in a .env file, and how alerts still arrive when the VPS is dead.
self-hosting A command channel nobody on the internet can reach: Tailscale in a container in front of a private ntfy Why my ChatOps commands go through a second, private ntfy with no public port, published to my tailnet only by a Tailscale container with Funnel switched off, and how the setup script gets there without me typing a hostname.
self-hosting The Bad Gateway that was really Gogs saying no Adding a GitHub mirror to Gogs kept failing with Bad Gateway. It took an hour, an SSH-key detour and a Traefik access log to find a plain 403 underneath.
self-hosting The certificate tracker that started all this, and the API key it had to watch Professional certifications, domains, TLS certificates and API keys in one NocoBase expiry tracker, filled from RDAP and certificate-transparency logs, plus the test that deleted a real row.
self-hosting I asked for an open-source Notion and ended up running four notes apps The honest history of looking for a self-hosted Notion: AFFiNE, AppFlowy, SiYuan and Memos all got deployed, and the structured stuff went somewhere else entirely.
self-hosting Why I run my VPS from a chat topic on my phone instead of SSH How a question about logging expenses from my phone became a ChatOps listener on a private ntfy server: rebuilt four times in a day, then broken in four instructive ways once it met the real server.
