Self-hosted infrastructure & CI/CD

I run my own production environment on a VPS instead of defaulting to managed platforms. Partly for cost, but mostly because running infrastructure yourself is the fastest way to actually understand it.

A Dockerized multi-app setup behind Caddy with automatic HTTPS, deployed through GitHub Actions: push to main and the pipeline builds, ships, and restarts whatever changed. It's hosted several apps across two domains, with n8n picking up the scheduled jobs and integrations around them.

I kept it deliberately boring: Docker Compose instead of Kubernetes, Caddy instead of hand-tuned nginx, one small server run properly instead of scale I don't need. The real effort went into the pipelines: zero-downtime restarts, secrets handling, getting deploys to the point where I don't think about them.

Years of uptime across real apps, and the kind of operational instinct you only pick up when there's no platform to blame at 2am. It's changed how I write software during the day too.