https://blog.karebski.dev/tags/disaster-recovery/Recent content in Disaster-Recovery on Mikolaj Karebski - Engineering NotesHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usWed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.karebski.dev/posts/why-is-self-hosting-hard/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.karebski.dev/posts/why-is-self-hosting-hard/Why Is Self-Hosting Hard? Around a year and a half ago, I started looking into self-hosting my own infrastructure: an old laptop with 8 CPU cores and 32 GB of RAM. I wanted to run self-hosted apps to limit my data exposure to third-party companies and truly own my data, such as photos and passwords. This felt like a natural next step after getting into homelabbing. Then something really bad happened: the hard drive in my homelab machine died.