My self-hosting corner

Self-hosting is the hobby that quietly ate all my other hobbies. It started with wanting my own git remote and turned into a small Proxmox box running a handful of services I now depend on daily.

The core of it is Forgejo at git.kjan.de, my own git forge with CI built in, plus a mail server, because at some point “how hard can it be” stops being a joke and turns into a personality trait. There’s also a pile of smaller services sitting behind a reverse proxy that I mostly forget exist until one of them breaks.

What I’m actually digging into right now is NixOS, not Kubernetes like I said last time I brought this up. Turns out declaring your entire system in one config file instead of SSHing in and duct-taping fixes by hand is a genuinely different way to think about running a server, and I’m still getting used to it.

More notes on this as the homelab evolves.