From Replit to Docker and Self-hosting: When Simple Becomes Complex

Moving a campaign management system from Replit to Docker self-hosting. What started as just move it became a complexity sequel.
From Self-Hosted Chaos to CI/CD Zen: My DevOps Reality Check

A simple database migration turned into firewall lockouts, auth failures, and AWS having a bad day. Here is my DevOps reality check.
Self Hosting on Render

I helped a client replace Zapier and Make with a self-hosted n8n instance on Render. Full workflow ownership, 33 per month saved.