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So, now GitHub Pages deploy is broken and I can't release my thing as planned. It really is time to move...

On bad days I'm at "damn it I'll just run my own server in the basement" and on better days I'm somewhere around a single NixOS machine on some VPS.

Oskar Wickström

@wickstrom.tech

That's how I run my wife's site: NixOS, SQLite, bespoke Rust webapp for ecommerce. It's fast and cheap, and ironically it probably has better uptime than the enshittified platforms.

9/7/26, 8:14 am0 reposts1 like

terrorjack.bsky.social

@terrorjack.bsky.social

9 July

i find cdn/anti-ddos the hardest part to self host, curious what solution you use

Oskar Wickström

@wickstrom.tech

9 July

CloudFront for CDN currently. No ddos protection yet, haven't needed but probably will eventually. Was considering Cloudflare but I'm open to other things.

Oskar Wickström

@wickstrom.tech

9 July

Not sure if there even are self hosting alternatives?

terrorjack.bsky.social

@terrorjack.bsky.social

9 July

there are proof-of-work scripts like anubis though i haven't tried it on anything i manage