notes on self-hosting, edge networks, and running things on boxes I can actually reason about

About

I write about the small, boring infrastructure decisions that turn into interesting lessons once you actually run them yourself โ€” a domain, a VM, a CDN in front of it, and whatever I've broken and fixed since.

Nothing here runs at scale on purpose. The point is reasoning about every layer end to end: DNS, origin, cache, edge logic โ€” without a platform team standing between me and the mistake.

If a post is wrong or out of date, it's probably because I learned something after writing it. That's kind of the format.