https://garbas.si/tags/self-hosting/ Recent content in Self-Hosting on Rok Garbas Hugo en-us © Rok Garbas Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://garbas.si/posts/becoming-dangerous-ai-self-hosting-nixos/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://garbas.si/posts/becoming-dangerous-ai-self-hosting-nixos/ <p>Self-hosting has always been a niche hobby for a reason.</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve been using NixOS for over a decade. I know the ecosystem. I&rsquo;ve contributed to it, founded NixCon, led the marketing team. And yet, every time I&rsquo;ve tried to self-host something beyond the basics, I&rsquo;ve hit the same wall: the nitty-gritty details that take forever to get right.</p> <p>You want to run Nextcloud? Great. Now you need to understand nginx reverse proxies, TLS certificates, PostgreSQL tuning, DNS records, backup strategies. Each of these is its own rabbit hole. Each requires reading documentation, testing configurations, breaking things, fixing them, and hoping you didn&rsquo;t miss some security footgun along the way.</p>