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08/09/2026

When you're the only one who actually works 🙃

05/09/2026

That one coworker who can't stop working

03/09/2026

step 6 is where the real engineering begins

01/09/2026

Analytics, monitoring, automation, CI/CD, transactional email... most of them cost $10 to $50 each and rely heavily on per-seat billing.

For a small, growing team, that bill creeps up to $200 to $500 per month. None of it feels like a deliberate choice. You just add a tool here, a third teammate there, and the line items multiply on their own.

Here’s what teams tired of that SaaS creep are doing: moving open-source versions onto a single server they control.

The swap:
- Plausible instead of Google Analytics
- n8n instead of Zapier
- Gitea, Vaultwarden, and Supabase run just as well on Docker

Why now? The friction is gone. Coolify (open-source, 52k+ GitHub stars, no VC pressure) gives you one-click deploys for 280+ services, automatic SSL, and a clean UI to manage it all.

Running that exact stack (n8n + Plausible + Uptime Kuma + a database) costs around $25/mo on a single VPS, compared to $50–$150 on managed tiers.

Here’s the honest truth, before you get excited:
Self-hosting saves money, not time.

- The budget: Expect 5 to 10 hours for the initial setup, plus 1 to 2 hours a month for updates and backups.
- The rule of 3: It pays off once you’re running three or more paid services. If you only need one tool, the managed version is still the smarter call.
- The skills: You don't need to be a sysadmin to start, but you will gradually become one.

None of this means ripping out your entire stack this weekend. It’s just about noticing the bill before it notices you.

If you want to test the waters, is*hosting ships a pre-installed Coolify image. Just pick "Coolify Alpine Linux 3" in the VPS configurator, and it’s ready out of the box.

👉 https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0xpk0Z0

29/08/2026

Who actually codes better?

27/08/2026

we are not the same and that's okay (it's not okay)

25/08/2026

"We have redundancy" and "we control our blast radius" are two very different things. A lot of teams only figure this out at 3 AM during a major outage.

Redundancy answers the question: what if a server dies? Blast radius answers: if a bad config is pushed or a web app is compromised, how much goes down with it?

A migration that eats a schema isn't a hardware failure. Your standard failover won't save you here — it will just propagate the error to your backup nodes faster.

If you want actually to contain a failure, focus on these three things:

1. Kill the flat network. If your network is flat, your blast radius is 100%. A crashed or compromised service shouldn't be able to reach everything else. Something as simple as putting your database on an internal: true Docker network cuts off its route to the internet completely. Even if you fumble a firewall rule later, that boundary holds. The app can reach the DB; nothing outside can.

2. Stop troubleshooting live servers. If a node is acting up, don't SSH in for a live debugging session. Tear it down and rebuild from a known-good state. When your infrastructure is defined as code, deployment is recovery. You rehearse it every time you ship, and it entirely eliminates the "wait, what did we change yesterday?" guessing game.

3. Don't write the playbook while things are on fire. Keep it to one page. You just need to answer three things:

- How do we find out? (actual alerts, not digging through logs after the fact)
- How do we stop the bleeding? (containment, a lockdown script, draining traffic)
- How do we get back online? (tested restores from isolated, immutable backups)

You don’t want to be figuring this out while the servers are down.

You don't need exotic tooling; you just need infrastructure that gets out of your way — real resource isolation, root access to write your own firewall rules, and the ability to rebuild on demand.

Honestly evaluate your current setup: out of detect, contain, and recover, which one would fail the hardest if things went south today?

24/08/2026

POV: You work in IT 💀

21/08/2026

Happy World Entrepreneur Day to everyone building things from scratch! May your MRR grow faster than your bills, and may the duct tape holding your production together hold for another year…

19/08/2026

Wait for the ending...

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