Self-hosting articles

My business WhatsApp now answers 24/7 with AI, hands chats to me when it matters, and costs under ten paise a reply. Here is the WAHA + ASP.NET Core setup, the real costs, and the ban-safety rules I follow.

A practical look at where to store your app's files — managed cloud services vs self-hosting, what open-source options exist, and why a licensing change pushed me from MinIO to RustFS.

Dokploy deploys my apps, Mailcow runs my email, Postgres holds my data — and Novu and WAHA are the two I'm still wiring in. I didn't write any of it, and my whole setup now leans on it. Here's me working out whether that's a solid foundation or five dependencies I can't escape — and the one question I ask before adding another.

mailcow is installed and your first domain works. Here is how to add a second domain properly: every field in the domain form, every DNS record and why it exists, and the alias options nobody explains.

Two weeks ago a random YouTube video sent me down a rabbit hole — could I run my own email server? Turns out yes, and I did it using Mailcow on my existing VPS. Here's what I learned along the way.