Category: Cloud & DevOps
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From Replit to Docker and Self-hosting: When Simple Becomes Complex
Remember that campaign management system I built to save a client over $300/month by ditching Airtable’s expensive client portal? Well, that story just got a sequel – and like most sequels, it involved way more complexity than I originally anticipated. What started as a simple request to “move it off Replit so we own it”…
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Setting Up Uptime Kuma: When ‘Just Monitor My Stuff’ Becomes a Linux Deep Dive
You know that sinking feeling when a customer calls to tell you they can’t access something, and you realize you had no idea it was broken? That was me last week when AWS decided to have hardware issues with my EC2 instance. A simple phone call about a broken form turned into the wake-up call…
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From Self-Hosted Chaos to CI/CD Zen: My DevOps Reality Check
You know that moment when you’re running a perfectly functional self-hosted stack, and you think “This could be better”? Yeah, that was me a few weeks ago. What started as a simple database migration turned into a full-blown DevOps adventure complete with firewall lockouts, authentication failures, and AWS deciding to have a bad day. Here’s…
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My Journey from DigitalOcean to AWS with Terraform
My Journey from DigitalOcean to AWS with Terraform Transitioning from DigitalOcean to AWS wasn’t just a technical challenge—it was a significant milestone in my professional growth. In this post, I’ll share my practical journey of migrating an application stack using Terraform for infrastructure automation, focusing on lessons learned, solutions found, and what’s next. Initial Stack:…
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Custom AI Chat Hub: Self-Hosting & Automation
This blog details the creation of a custom AI chat platform integrating Open WebUI with n8n workflow automation, securely exposed via Cloudflare Tunnel. It covers motivations for building a personalized conversational interface over existing options, the choice of core components (Open WebUI for chat UI, n8n for automation, Cloudflare Tunnel for secure access), and the…