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Moving a production Postgres database off Neon to self-hosted Proxmox meant losing managed backups and PITR. Here's the architecture I replaced it with: async streaming replication to a second node that doubles as a pgBackRest repo host, with Cloudflare R2 as a decoupled offsite mirror — plus the two designs I tried and dropped first.
If your Proxmox virtual machine suddenly fails to boot and drops you into an (initramfs) BusyBox shell with errors like: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY The root filesystem requires a…
As 2025 comes to an end, I wanted to pause and reflect on what this year meant to me—what I built, what I learned, and more importantly, how my mindset around building and failure evolved. This year…
Today was one of those days where everything that normally “just works” decides to take a vacation. Cloudflare had a pretty big outage, and suddenly all my websites were unreachable. The funny part?…
As I am in the process of converting some of the Wordpress based blogs to to use the static website builder Jekyll. This will allow instant response to the users without loading my self hosting…
This is a quick post on how to use docker secrets with portainer . We will use the pgadmin service as an example to demonstrate this. Login to the portainer and navigate to the secrets landing page.…
As I am recently upgrading my home network from simple Raspberry Pi to Proxmox based hypervisor network have got to explore many new things. This is one of the issue I couldn't find an answer quickly…
After moving to new country, I am setting up my home network to bring some of containers back from the cloud to self hosting from home. But the problem with my new router is there is no port based…