Servetor

Notes from a small homelab: self-hosting, Linux, backups and things that broke at 2 a.m.

Restic backups that I actually test

October 19, 2026

A backup you never restored is a hope, not a backup. Here is the small restic setup I run on every box, plus the monthly restore drill that keeps it honest.

Hosting a static site with nginx on a 1 GB VPS

September 7, 2026

This blog runs on plain nginx and a handful of HTML files. No build step, no database, nothing to patch at night.

Teaching my servers to shut down gracefully with NUT

July 28, 2026

Two short power cuts and one corrupted filesystem later, I finally wired the UPS into Network UPS Tools.