This very website is served from my home by an Ubuntu Server running on old hardware behind my fridge:
I've talked in a local dev meetup about my setup, you can check the slides here:
My homelab is at the same time a "production" environment for my digital life and "staging" environment for all sort of crazy project that I want to play with. It's amazing what 10-year-old hardware is capable of!
Maybe someday I'll invest into another second-hand to create separate environments.
All my homelab config is available this repo in my git forge (also itself hosted behind the fridge, as you may have guessed 😜).
In a future post, I want to take the layers of my setup apart and write about the different problems that I've solved and solutions that I've found. Until next time: go and play! The world is large and there are a lot of very good self-hostable projects around. You can start simple.
Leandro at 2026-03-30 20:44 UTC
Haha, that's cool. I hope someday I find the energy to host all sorts of crazy tools on a personal server as well. I guess we were taught to think that we can only host stuff on AWS or another cloud provider.
You just gave me an idea to play wit :)
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I bet once you start, you'll like it a lot 😎
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