Self-Hosting
OpenTelemetry Into a Stack You Own
Four machines, one self-hosted SigNoz on a 7.5 GB box. The collector setup and naming scheme that keep it usable, and the two defaults that quietly deleted my logs and buried the box in its own profiling data.
Getting Self-Hosted Mail to Actually Deliver
Notes from a bulk-mail server I built for a client, with fourteen sending IPs. The setup that has to be right, the config, and why a first send that passed every check still went to spam.
Building a Self-Hosted Identity Layer with Authentik
Forward auth, OIDC and LDAP from one Authentik install, the Traefik config that ties it together, and three things that bit me along the way.
Automating Media Management with the Arr Stack
How my Sonarr and Radarr setup is wired, what a quality sync tool did to it halfway through a 30TB re-download, and the two bugs that only showed up under load.
Why I Self-Host Everything
One Proxmox box, five VMs and 59 containers, deployed with a git push. What I run at home, why, and the backups I should have set up sooner.