Topic
Running my own infrastructure: Docker, Coolify, backups and the apps worth keeping online.
4 pieces
A real-world guide to backing up a self-hosted homelab running Postgres, Paperless, Linkwarden, and more to Dropbox using rclone and cron. No paid tools, no Docker agents, just a bash script that works.
Coolify wouldn't finish deploying on my ARM server. The logs kept showing S6_INITIALIZED not set. Here's the exact cause and the one-line fix.
How I wired up a daily cron job on a Linux server, a Next.js API route, and self-hosted ntfy to push notifications for my vocab app, with code and setup steps.
A living list of the best self-hosted open source apps I personally run and love. From media servers and photo backups to budgeting, notes, location tracking, and password management, these are the tools that replaced Big Tech for me.