Self Hosting Websites

Meadowhawk is a software engineer, maker, tiny house builder, artist, hiker, and gamer. They are interested in decentralization and moving away from corporate social media. Meadowhawk enjoys hacking, making, and cultivating small communities. They self-host Gitea and Immich, and have moved to Proton for calendar and other services. Meadowhawk is working on rehosting their old Instagram content to their blog. They use Pelican as a static site generator, along with REST services for dynamic content.

Will is a network and systems administrator working in data center and cloud infrastructure. He has a background in network engineering and IT consulting, and entered the field in 2016. He builds on-premise and cloud infrastructure, supporting web applications and back ends for large scale hardware deployments. Will is the author of the blog, Infernal Error, which documents his experiences in IT and writeups on new technologies. He hopes his blog will help others in the field.

Kateřina Medvědová is a DevOps engineer whose profession is also her main hobby. She enjoys self-hosting services at home and experimenting with infrastructure, automation, and open-source tools. Outside of her work, she enjoys photography, 3D modeling in Blender, and flying FPV drones. She is also a privacy advocate. She maintains a blog about her interests and can be found online under the handle k8ie or k8ieone.

Yuri Cunha is a database technology student from Brazil who is passionate about computers, databases, and homelabs. He focuses on practical knowledge, documentation, and reliability, preferring real examples over pure theory. Yuri is building a DBA lab and portfolio with a focus on PostgreSQL. He enjoys working with infrastructure and databases, particularly in roles where PostgreSQL and Linux are central. He is also working on personal projects involving self-hosting, local AI, and small web applications.

Zlendy is a web developer from Spain who enjoys contributing to FOSS projects. Zlendy's online presence is under the username Zlendy, a name they have used for several years. Zlendy enjoys self hosting on a Proxmox VE server, specifically using Docker. All of Zlendy's projects have been released as Open Source software. Zlendy enjoys watching science-related content from creators such as QuantumFracture, Kurzgesagt and Veritasium. Zlendy also enjoys listening to soundtracks, especially instrumental ones. Zlendy started watching Anime and reading Manga around 2020.

Eric Pierce is the VP of Solutions Architecture at Epsilon's Digital Arm. Based in Austin, TX, he founded and leads the Solutions Architecture practice. He created his website to document and share his projects. He is interested in data science and self-hosting. He is also interested in travel.

Rohit Farmer is a computational biologist with a passion for the outdoors, self-hosting, Ham radio, and FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). He uses his website as a personal space to share his thoughts, projects, and explorations. He built the website using Quarto to convert Markdown files into static HTML pages, and he hosts it on Google Cloud Platform. He also uses GitHub Pages for some subdomains.

Jakob is a web developer with a strong interest in note-taking. He enjoys travelling, cooking, reading books, and hiking. He is curious and interested in computer science, physics, psychology, and philosophy. He shares his ideas, thoughts, journeys, and projects through a newsletter.

Bharat Kalluri runs the banking engineering team at Refyne. He maintains a digital garden, which he describes as a public notepad and a peek into what’s running in his head. It's a place where his thoughts take birth, grow, and prosper. He welcomes emails and discussions with new people.

JN is a graduate of a Computer Science program who admits to not being particularly skilled at programming. Based in Taipei, they originally hail from Dali Caohu in Taichung. They have a background in electronics and previously worked at a Livehouse and as a QA tester for servers. Currently, JN works as a cloud engineer at a bank. They are interested in open-source software, self-hosting servers, social media, and music. JN also enjoys sharing life experiences and documents their journey as a crossdresser.

Christian Cleberg is a Technology Assurance Manager at KPMG, working on financial statement audits (SOX & MAR), Service Organization Control (SOC) 1-3 reports, and other attestations. In his spare time, he enjoys running Linux servers, enhancing his home lab network, writing personal programs in Python, researching various topics, writing blog posts, conversing on IRC, and playing video games. He can be contacted via email, XMPP, or Signal.