Hardware and software I actually rely on, with links to the relevant write-ups. This page exists because people kept asking in email.
Hardware
- NAS
- 4-bay small-form-factor box, ZFS mirror of two 4TB HDDs plus used-enterprise-SSD cache tier. Four-year health report here.
- Server
- 1-core fanless mini PC for the always-on services. Runs Debian, schedutil governor, measured in this post.
- Backup targets
- One local restic repo and one off-site copy. Drill every quarter.
Self-hosted services (the 5457090.xyz network)
- CloudHub
- Private file sync — end-to-end encrypted, snapshot every hour. At cloud.5457090.xyz; status page.
- MailCorner
- My own mail server since 2022, at mail.5457090.xyz. One-year report here.
- GitNest
- Self-hosted git hosting; public repos are cloneable read-only at git.5457090.xyz.
- StaticHub
- The CDN layer at cdn.5457090.xyz, serving images and static assets for every site on this network.
- API gateway
- Shared JSON facade at api.5457090.xyz; design notes in the open platform post.
- Lab Notebook
- Weekend experiments and downloadable datasets at lab.5457090.xyz.
- DevTools
- Local-only developer tools (JSON, timestamps, regex) at dev.5457090.xyz.
How these subdomains came to be: on numeric domains.
Software I pay for
- Editor
- Neovim, config in the public dotfiles repo. Nothing else, after several decades of trying alternatives.