The 2026 Personal Cloud Stack That Actually Works
After running my personal infra for years, here's the stack that survives platform shifts.
Long-form pieces on the operational decisions that actually matter in 2026.
After running my personal infra for years, here's the stack that survives platform shifts.
A field report on moving 2TB of personal data off Google Drive and what I run instead.
Apple's pricing is fine. The lock-in is the problem. Here's the math.
Three years of restores, two real disasters, one honest review.
Immich on a Synology, Ente on a Hetzner box — what I actually run for 60K photos.
1Password is fine. Bitwarden is fine. Here's what actually matters in selection.
NordVPN's ads are nonsense. Mullvad sells the truth. Here's what VPNs actually do.
After 4 years of self-hosting, here's the boring playbook that works.
The 2026 unit-cost analysis nobody publishes. Spoiler: self-hosted wins for >2TB.
Why owning your data is no longer optional in 2026.