The Build

A production cloud in under a week.

<20
Hours Total
<1
Week
100%
Uptime Target
2
Engineers

1. Spec the Hardware

Size for your workload.
CPU 16 cores
RAM 128 GiB
Storage 3 TiB
OS Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

2. Install Applications

1 OS. Ubuntu Server, SSH keys, disable root.
2 Firewall. Default deny. Open only what's needed.
3 Docker. Container runtime for all services.
4 Monitoring. Prometheus + Grafana.
5 Reverse proxy. Nginx with TLS.

3. Secure Access

WireGuard VPN. No exposed ports. Dynamic DNS.

4. This Website

Running on that server right now.
Grafana dashboard
CPU 0.2% · RAM 3.5% · Uptime 3.9 days

For engineers like Jacob Rosenbacher and Vladimir Vuksan, this is a walk in the park. 100% uptime is achievable. The tools are mature. No Silicon Valley required.