Planning your self-hosted services — what to run and why
I’ll be honest — I didn’t plan my self-hosted stack. I started with one service, liked the feeling of owning my own data, and just kept adding things. Vaultwarden, then MkDocs, then more. Recently I added Karakeep. Before that something else. Each one solving a problem, replacing a subscription, or just satisfying curiosity. It works — but looking back, a bit of upfront planning would have saved me time, avoided some redundancy, and helped me think more clearly about what I actually needed versus what just seemed interesting at the time. ...