Been in the weeds shipping an OSS side project for the past few weeks (social media publishing API). Real launch post is coming, this isn't that. Along the way I kept a list of services that actually have usable free tiers for OSS, not the "free trial" kind. Sharing in case it helps. Happy to be told what's missing.
**Docs**
Mintlify is the obvious one. Point at a public repo and it works. Their default theme is already better than what most teams ship paying for, which is mildly annoying.
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I have 1 mini PC ubuntu server running some docker apps on it. Then i have another proxmox cluster with 2 nodes ( will add 1 more in future ) , to which i am slowly migrating my services to VMs/LxCs .
In the ubuntu server i have dockhand installed to monitor, manage docker containers which worked great till now since all my docker apps are on single server.
In the new Proxmox VM with docker, I installed the dockhand hawserr agent and added it as environment in dockhand. So if i create more V
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I've been setting up VPSes for side projects for a few years now, and I still find myself Googling the same hardening steps every time — SSH key setup, disabling root login, firewall rules, fail2ban, unattended upgrades...
Every time I spin up a new Hetzner/DO/Linode box, I spend 1-2 hours doing what should take 30 minutes, because I'm paranoid about missing something.
Curious what your workflow looks like:
1. Do you have a personal checklist or script you run?
2. What's the one step most pe
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