Backups you can actually restore
A backup that has never been restored is a hope, not a backup. A short routine for small servers: what to copy, where to keep it and how to test it.
Small services, kept simple
A personal notebook about running a handful of self-hosted services without turning it into a second job.
Recent notes
Monitoring from the outside
A service that reports its own health will happily say it is fine while nobody can reach it. Why checks belong on the other side of the network.
Principles
- Fewer moving parts beat clever ones.
- One script should rebuild the whole thing from a clean machine.
- Write down why, not only how.