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Self-hosted monitoring on a single VPS

How I monitor a small fleet of self-hosted projects on one Linux box: what runs, why it is wired the way it is, and the handful of decisions that took a few outages to get right.ContentsStarting…

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Running 12 services on two VPS boxes in Germany - my self-hosted infrastructure

I run my entire digital life on two Contabo VPS servers in Germany. Personal site, photography portfolio, business site, email, password vault, analytics, monitoring - all of it. No AWS. No Vercel.…

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Getting Omarchy Running: What I Actually Did

Look, I just installed Omarchy on my laptop. Fresh. And yeah, it's amazing out of the box, but let's be honest - you're going to want your own tools. This isn't a generic tutorial. This is what I…

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Fixing audio issues after Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade on Lenovo T14s

Upgrading your system can be exciting, but it sometimes brings along unexpected challenges. Recently, after upgrading my Lenovo T14s from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04, I faced a frustrating issue—my audio…

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