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How I turned a single MacBook into a private cloud — AI inference, media server, dev services, wildcard HTTPS — all managed as code across 19 Docker Compose profiles.
How a bulk marketing campaign starved transactional email at Prachyam Studios — and how I fixed it by understanding Postfix queue internals and building a priority queue on top of Mailcow.
Llama 70B, Flux image generation, Kokoro TTS, Whisper STT — all running locally on an M1 Max with 64GB unified memory. The practical setup, benchmarks, and honest assessment of what's ready and what isn't.
The full story of building a self-hosted email stack across 12 domains and 6 servers at Prachyam Studios — the architecture, the hard lessons, and why I'd do it again.
How Nextcloud handles large file uploads under the hood, and how to implement chunked uploads manually when the desktop client isn't an option.
Passing SPF and DKIM doesn't mean DMARC passes. Alignment is a separate check — and missing it is why your authenticated emails still land in spam.
Self-hosting is not about being cheap or contrarian. It's about understanding your stack, owning your data, and building a certain kind of engineering judgment that you can't get any other way.
Running a self-hosted email server across 12 domains for a media company — the architecture, challenges, and why I'd do it again.
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