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How I Self-Hosted This Blog on a Mini PC

I got tired of the free tier anxiety. Vercel and Netlify are solid until they change their pricing or disappear, and I did not want a recurring bill for a static site. I wanted a machine sitting in my house actually serving the files.

The machine

The site runs on a generic mini PC — an N100 processor, 16GB of RAM, and an SSD. Mini PCs like this are worth knowing about if you are doing homelab work on a budget. They pull around 6W at idle, run silently, and handle a static site without any trouble. Overkill for this use case, but that just means it will never struggle.