https://muslimspot.com/blogs/ Notes on building and running MuslimSpot: the infrastructure, the mail, and the decisions behind both. en-gb Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://muslimspot.com/icons/og-card.png https://muslimspot.com/blogs/ https://muslimspot.com/blogs/owning-your-own-infrastructure/ https://muslimspot.com/blogs/owning-your-own-infrastructure/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The case for running your own server is not that it is cheaper. It is that you can answer questions about it. Here is what that buys, and the four things it costs. Engineering self-hosting operations decisions MuslimSpot https://muslimspot.com/blogs/moving-onto-single-node-kubernetes/ https://muslimspot.com/blogs/moving-onto-single-node-kubernetes/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A production app moved onto k3s on a box that was already serving traffic. What had to be decided first, which secrets could not be regenerated, and the order of the cutover. Infrastructure kubernetes k3s nginx deployment self-hosting MuslimSpot https://muslimspot.com/blogs/mail-server-that-reaches-the-inbox/ https://muslimspot.com/blogs/mail-server-that-reaches-the-inbox/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sending mail from your own server is easy. Having it arrive is the hard part. What we set up, in what order, and the two things we do not send ourselves. Infrastructure mail dns deliverability self-hosting MuslimSpot