How I Host
The author shares their journey of transitioning to self-hosting their websites on a home server. After experimenting with various hosting platforms, they settled on a mini PC that meets their needs for reliability and performance. The setup allows for efficient management and improved uptime compared to previous hosting solutions.
- ▪The author moved from various online hosting services to a self-hosted solution at home.
- ▪They chose a BeeLink SER8 mini PC for its performance and reliability.
- ▪The setup includes using Cloudflare tunnels for security and improved uptime.
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May 23, 2026How I Host Not long ago, my online presence was served variously by Heroku, Fly, AWS, GCP, and GitHub Pages. This evolved organically, over a decade, and became a recipe for unpredictable, expensive sadness. Meanwhile, the world marched on. My home gigabit fiber proved to be remarkably stable. Its uptime over the past year absolutely trounced GitHub. The answer was clear: I had to run a server at home. My read is that there are, roughly, two types of home server admins in the world: those that want to experiment with every shiny tech toy under the sun, and those that want soulless set-and-forget. Spoiler alert: I’m in the boring bucket.
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