What I build · 30
Servers on your premises
The rented cloud is somebody else's computer, on the other side of a link you don't control. A server on your premises is yours, on your network, and it does not care whether the outside world is reachable.
What I build
- A modest, reliable machine — often refurbished business hardware, sometimes a small purpose-built box — sized for what you actually do, with room to grow and a spare disk in the drawer.
- Linux, running services in containers, each one named, each one documented, each one restartable without me.
- The services people actually rent today: shared files, photos, calendars and contacts (see Private cloud), a phone system that answers on the premises, camera recording that stays on your disk, home or building automation that does not need a vendor’s app.
- Power handled. A battery backup, a clean shutdown when the battery runs low, and a known restart order when the power comes back.
- A path to the outside through a tunnel, so you can reach it from the road without opening your building to the internet.
What you get at handover
The machine, its passwords, a one-page runbook (how to restart it, how to check it, who to call), and the knowledge that nothing on it is a secret from you.