About
Hi, this is Mansoor. I am a Site Reliability Engineer by profession. I currently work for Spotify and I spend a lot of time working on cloud infrastructure at scale.
I sometimes write on my blog esc.sh. By sometimes, I mean once in a blue moon. SelfHosting and HomeLab is one of my biggest passion and I thought of creating a dedicated site at selfhost.esc.sh to share my knowledge with the community. This is a free resource and will always remain free.
Links
Resources on self hosting
I have a YouTube Playlist on Devops From Scratch. This is 4 years old and I did not do a great job with the first few videos, but I think they are pretty useful overall.
Privacy
I do not run any ads or collect any information about the users. I do run a selfhosted Plausible analytics server to get some basic metrics like number of visitors, top URLs etc. But I do not use that data for anything else.
If you wish to block that, feel free to add https://plaus.esc.sh/js/script.js to your Adblocker.
This site
Hardware
I have a 3 node Proxmox cluster using the legendary ThinkCenter M720Q Mini PC. It is sitting in an Ikea shelf
Software and networking
This site is running inside a Proxmox VM using docker. And I use Ghost as my blogging platform. Why Ghost over Markdown? While I am very comfortable with Markdown, I feel more motivated to write on an editor like Ghost
The Proxmox VM lives in an isolated VLAN with no access to anything else in the network. I use Cloudflare tunnel to expose the site to the internet. So, if this site goes down, please be kind!