Self-Hosted

This website is served from my living room!

At the beginning of 2026, I made the resolution to take back ownership of my data before the end of the year. To that end, I bought a €150 mini PC (Soyo M4 Plus 2, Intel N150, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD) with the plan of turning it into a low-power server. I replaced its pre-installed Windows 11 with Proxmox VE; the Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts project makes it easy to set up popular self-hosted applications in a few keystrokes.

Here is my progress so far:

• Personal website (gautier.dev)

  Deployment is fully automated: pushing to my Forgejo instance (git.gautier.dev) triggers a webhook on my Coolify instance. I’ve set up a two-way mirror between Forgejo and GitHub for backup and convenience.

  The site is served through a Cloudflare Tunnel that takes care of HTTPS and caching.

• Google Drive → Copyparty

  This is not a real replacement for Google Drive, but it does the job for now.

• Gmail → Stalwart

  Started as an experiment, but it works so I might as well keep it.

  Using Stalwart behind Caddy (I need Caddy to dispatch requests to the right place) took me a full day to set up. Here is the resulting Caddyfile:

  {
    # Internal HTTPS loop
    https_port 8443
  
    layer4 {
      :443 {
        # Route raw :443 trafic to mail.gautier.dev
        @mail tls sni mail.gautier.dev
        route @mail {
          proxy 192.168.1.104:443 {
            proxy_protocol v2
          }
        }
        # Let Caddy process the rest with the internal HTTPS loop
        route {
          proxy 127.0.0.1:8443
        }
      }
    }
  }
  

  Note that it requires caddy-l4 to be installed on the Caddy instance. This is required for Stalwart to issue its own TLS certificates using ACME ALPN challenges (HTTP not available for .dev domains).

  On the Stalwart instance, I had to set the Caddy IP as a trusted proxy so that Stalwart can get the real client IP for security purposes.

• Bitwarden → Vaultwarden

• Google Photos → Immich

• Google Keep → TBD

• PDS ATProto (Bluesky)

• Notion → TBD

• TOTP Authenticator → TBD

• Google Calendar → Whenbanana

• Huawei Health → Gadgetbridge

• Cloudflare Analytics → Umami

That’s a long list, wish me luck! I’ll keep this page updated with my progress.