self-hosting
Posts tagged "self-hosting".
- Why I Self-Host
The reasons I give — privacy, cost, resilience — are all true, and all partly a cover story. I set out to build a little local-AI appliance and spent the night fighting NVIDIA drivers and firewall lockouts instead, and enjoyed it. That last part is the actual reason, and it isn't a recommendation.
- Not Every FLAC Is Lossless
A file's extension is a label, not a promise. Self-hosting a music library, I kept running into FLACs that were lossy files in disguise and 'hi-res' tracks upsampled from a CD. The metadata lies; the spectrogram doesn't. So I built a tool to tell them apart.
- Fail Closed, Not Fast
One small default separates systems that survive reality from ones that only demo well: when a dependency dies, does your system keep going without it, or stop? For anything protective, the safe answer is the annoying one.