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SaaS vs. Self-Hosting: What's Actually Worth It?

An honest cost comparison between SaaS subscriptions and self-hosted open-source alternatives: real numbers, a GDPR perspective, and a tool-by-tool breakdown.

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· 3 min read

Content Security Policy on Cloudflare Pages: Stop Guessing, Start With This

CSP on Cloudflare Pages has a few non-obvious requirements — including a script Cloudflare injects automatically. Here's the complete setup for a self-hosted stack.

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· 4 min read

GDPR-Compliant Analytics Without the Cookie Banner: Our Self-Hosted Setup

How we run privacy-first web analytics and conversion tracking on our own server using Plausible and Rybbit — no consent banner, no data leaving the EU, no per-seat fees.

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· 5 min read

Coolify in Production: What the Docs Don't Tell You

Coolify is genuinely excellent for self-hosting. Here's what running it in production on Hetzner actually taught us — the gotchas, the fixes, and what to watch for.

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· 4 min read

Listmonk: A Real Mailchimp Alternative — What to Know Before You Deploy

Listmonk is a powerful self-hosted newsletter server that covers most of what Mailchimp does, at zero per-subscriber cost. Here's an honest look at what it takes to run it in production.

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· 4 min read

Why Your Website Loses Clients Before They Ever Make Contact

Slow load times, poor Core Web Vitals, and generic designs cost real business. What LCP, CLS, and INP mean and how modern technology solves the problem.

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· 4 min read

AI Automation: What It Actually Delivers. And What It Doesn't.

Concrete use cases for AI-powered automation in everyday business: from lead nurturing to content pipelines, with real examples instead of buzzwords.

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