Build log

The parts that didn't work the first time.

Anyone can list hardware. These are the write-ups — what I set out to do, where it went wrong, and what the fix turned out to be.

8 entries

Self-Hosting Immich: Building My Own Private Photo Backup System

Replacing cloud photo storage with a self-hosted Immich deployment — the setup, a database troubleshooting snag, and making it accessible anywhere.

A phase-by-phase timeline of how the AFComp homelab came together, from hardware to networking to self-hosted apps — and what's next.

This site kept crash-looping until I stopped running it as a dev server. Here's what actually broke and how it got fixed.

Upgrading from a basic consumer router to an Omada-based network — the hardware, the reasoning, and what's next.

Moving from installing everything directly on Linux to Docker containers — structure, Portainer, and the lesson about persistent storage.

How Cloudflare DNS, Nginx Proxy Manager, and Let's Encrypt come together to give clean HTTPS URLs for everything running on the homelab.

How a mini workstation turned into a full self-hosted homelab — the hardware, the reasons behind it, and what I've learned so far.

Why I built and hosted my own portfolio site instead of using a website builder, the stack behind it, and where it's headed.