• 5 Things That Should Be Illegal to Self Host

  Jonas Scholz

  3 min

  Discover five things that should be illegal to self host. From email servers to CDNs, learn why some services are better left to the experts and how self-hosting them can lead to unnecessary headaches and potential disasters.

• How to ungoogle your Business: Google Drive Edition

  Jonas Scholz

  4 min

  Google Drive is convenient. But it comes with tradeoffs and they get worse the bigger your team grows. Every document, every spreadsheet, every sensitive file: stored on servers owned by a 2 trillion US tech company, subject to US law, priced per user, and hosted who knows where. That might not bother you if you're a startup with three people. But if you're a company in the EU with 50 employees and growing privacy concerns, it’s time to ask: Why are you still using Google Drive?

• The One Trait All Truly Great Engineers Share

  Jonas Scholz

  3 min

  Discover why curiosity, not intelligence or experience, is the defining trait of exceptional engineers. Learn how intellectual curiosity drives deeper understanding, better problem-solving, and continuous growth in software engineering.

• WordPress Won't Save Your SEO

  Lukas Mauser

  2 min

  Google doesn’t have a CMS bias built in. Google Can Only Measure Metrics like page speed, mobile usability, content quality signals, backlinks and crawlability.

• The Deglobalization and Fragmentation of the Cloud

  Jonas Scholz

  4 min

  The cloud used to be messy, and then it got boring. In the early days, the hosting market was fragmented: colocation, on-prem, little server resellers everywhere. Then came the hyperscalers. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure. They brought economies of scale, virtualization, and global infrastructure that changed everything. It was a consolidation wave that ate the market. And almost all of them? American.

• 5 Docker Projects To Master Docker

  Jonas Scholz

  4 min

  Discover 5 hands-on projects that will level up your Docker skills fast. Make the smallest Docker image, try to Dockerize something that should not be Dockerized, build a base image from scratch, and more.

• 5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Startup as a Software Engineer

  Jonas Scholz

  3 min

  There is a lot of startup advice out there, mostly from founders who already made it and forgot what the early days were actually like. So here is a version from someone still in the trenches, building stuff that breaks, sells, and eventually grows.

• How I Self Host VaultWarden With Docker Without Dealing With Servers

  Jonas Scholz

  5 min

  Learn how to self-host VaultWarden, the lightweight Bitwarden server, without managing infrastructure. This guide shows you how to run your own password manager securely using managed Docker hosting, giving you privacy and control without the operational overhead.

• Stop Using AWS.

  Jonas Scholz

  3 min

  Stop overengineering your infrastructure. Most successful indie projects started with simple setups - a single VPS, Docker, and a database. Learn why you probably don't need complex cloud architecture to build something people want.

• 5 Modern AWS Lightsail Alternatives

  Jonas Scholz

  4 min

  Discover the best alternatives to AWS Lightsail for modern cloud deployments. Explore Sliplane, Hetzner, Coolify, and Kamal as powerful alternatives to AWS Lightsail.