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Learn how to self-host n8n, the open-source automation platform, on Ubuntu using Docker and Caddy. This step-by-step guide covers installation, security, and cost comparison with managed services, helping you maintain full control over your automation infrastructure while reducing costs.

Discover five things that should be illegal to self host. From email servers to CDNs, learn why some services are better left to the experts and how self-hosting them can lead to unnecessary headaches and potential disasters.

Google Drive is convenient. But it comes with tradeoffs and they get worse the bigger your team grows. Every document, every spreadsheet, every sensitive file: stored on servers owned by a 2 trillion US tech company, subject to US law, priced per user, and hosted who knows where. That might not bother you if you're a startup with three people. But if you're a company in the EU with 50 employees and growing privacy concerns, it’s time to ask: Why are you still using Google Drive?

Discover why curiosity, not intelligence or experience, is the defining trait of exceptional engineers. Learn how intellectual curiosity drives deeper understanding, better problem-solving, and continuous growth in software engineering.

Google doesn’t have a CMS bias built in. Google Can Only Measure Metrics like page speed, mobile usability, content quality signals, backlinks and crawlability.

The cloud used to be messy, and then it got boring. In the early days, the hosting market was fragmented: colocation, on-prem, little server resellers everywhere. Then came the hyperscalers. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure. They brought economies of scale, virtualization, and global infrastructure that changed everything. It was a consolidation wave that ate the market. And almost all of them? American.

Discover 5 hands-on projects that will level up your Docker skills fast. Make the smallest Docker image, try to Dockerize something that should not be Dockerized, build a base image from scratch, and more.

There is a lot of startup advice out there, mostly from founders who already made it and forgot what the early days were actually like. So here is a version from someone still in the trenches, building stuff that breaks, sells, and eventually grows.

Learn how to self-host VaultWarden, the lightweight Bitwarden server, without managing infrastructure. This guide shows you how to run your own password manager securely using managed Docker hosting, giving you privacy and control without the operational overhead.