The same stack, and your Sundays back

You already ran it yourself. It worked for a year, until a disk filled on a Sunday and you became the on-call engineer for your own house. I run the same software on a machine I buy and keep, under your domain. Now the Sunday is mine.

You did not fail at this

You stopped being paid to do it. Running mail properly is a job — the records that keep your mail out of spam folders (DKIM), the blocklists, backups you have actually tested. Doing it for free, at night, forever, is the part that does not work.

You are not locked in

Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Immich and a real mail server: the software you chose. The registrar account stays in your name and you hold the backup key. If you want it back, you take it back — documented, standard formats, no export ticket.

The honest catch: this costs real money, because it is a person’s time and not a subscription. See what a setup includes.

What changes

A restore that has been tested

At home the nightly job ran for two years, and the first time it was needed the archive was empty. Here the backups are restored for real twice a year, and the result goes into your report, on this form (PDF).

Someone answers on a Sunday

A critical fault is acknowledged within four hours, any day of the year. Monitoring usually tells me before you notice, and what I owe you is written down.

A guide for every service

How to use it, how to bring your data in, how to set up your devices. Everything you need to start.

Questions

What if you are ill or away?

Monitoring and backups keep running either way. What pauses is change, not the service — the response targets are written down, and what happens if I stop for good is too.

Can you take over what I already built?

Yes — the data, not the box. It is standard software with an import path, and mail moves like any migration. Your old machine retires; the new one is mine to buy and run, and it is in the price.

How much storage do I get?

1 TB to start, expanded on request at no extra charge.

What happens if I leave?

I ship you the SSDs. Your files, as they are, on drives you own.

Tell me what you ran

I reply within two working days with a time to talk. Sometimes the honest answer is that you do not need me, and I will say so.

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Nothing is committed by sending this. What it costs, and what it buys.

Not ready to write? The key map is one page you fill in yourself: where everything is, and who could open it (PDF).