2025-12-16

Websites can be a garden of sorts too. Lately I have been treating the various applications that we run around the house as a garden and have become serious about cultivating them with the same thoughtfulness as my other gardens.

Wilderness

I started with a local git server and then moved it to gitea service. Added a wiki (JSPWiki) running on a Raspberry Pi. I added a PiHole installation on an old Pi, then another Pi to serve as a dedicated PostgreSQL server when I wanted to add more services but found that a RDBMS running on a 2GB device might be a problem. Add certificate management, SSO and other services and things started to get out of hand.

I picked up a new Ryzen 7 mini-desktop earlier in the year which left the old Ryzen 5 available as decent homelab server. The goal is to move the various services there in the next few weeks. I will document this process here.