I Migrated My Hobby Cloud Setup and Almost Locked Myself Out of Everything
There’s a special kind of person who talks to themselves while migrating servers. I am that person. This post is basically the black-box recording of me moving two hobby projects-an auth service and an expense tracker called Pennywise-off Hetzner and onto Contabo, while Coolify, Cloudflare, R2, Postgres, and one very stupid vault mistake all tried to teach me humility. If you’re here for a clean architecture diagram and zero drama: leave now. This is the other kind of migration story. ...