Cloud Servers
A Self-Hosted MSP Stack in Miniature
Overview
Not everything lives in my house. I run a small fleet of cloud servers — spread across Oracle Cloud and Hostinger, with another planned on Hetzner — hosting the tools an MSP would use, but self-hosted and on a hobbyist's budget.
What's Running
- TacticalRMM — remote monitoring and management for my machines: patching, scripts, alerts, and remote access
- Zammad — a proper helpdesk ticketing system, because even a homelab deserves tickets
- Assorted experiments that come and go as I learn
Why I Built It
I work in MSP infrastructure, so running my own version of the stack is the best training there is. Deploying it myself — the reverse proxies, the certificates, the updates, the things that break at midnight — teaches far more than any course.
Long term, this whole stack has a successor: Nebula, my own monitoring and RMM platform, is being built to take the place of all of it.
Key Lessons Learned
- Linux server administration on someone else's hardware
- Securing public-facing services: firewalls, TLS, and not exposing things you shouldn't
- Squeezing real infrastructure out of free tiers and budget VPS providers