Building22 May 202611 min
Six months of running everything on one box
One Hetzner machine, Caddy in front, SQLite with Litestream shipping to object storage. Six months, two incidents, both my fault.
The thing nobody tells you about a single box is how much attention you get back. There is no control plane to reason about at midnight.
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