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Own project · Private cloud · 2025–26
The Rack
My own private cloud on four used office PCs
- Role
- Builder, operator
- When
- Sep 2025 – 2026
- Built with
- Proxmox, Docker, Tailscale
- Status
- My test lab
- 4
- used office PCs
- 30+
- self-hosted services
- 13
- subscriptions replaced
The before
My tools and data lived on other people's servers, one subscription each.
What I built
One private cloud I own, with one login for 17 sites.
Features
01Separate networks
Four networks, and the security lab can't reach the house.
02One login, one door
Single sign-on everywhere, reachable from my phone, nothing open to the internet.
03Decisions written down
27 decision records so future me doesn't undo things on a whim.
What I learned
- —Duplicate backups filled a disk and took everything offline. Backups need limits.
- —Breaking my own servers taught me not to break anyone else's.
Working on something like this? Let's talk it through over coffee.