One box, production habits: GitOps, self-hosted runners, local inference, tiered NVMe/HDD storage that spins down and heals itself, tunnels to the edge.
VMs and LXCs from code. Golden images, cloud-init, drift caught on schedule.
NVMe landing zone, nightly tiering to HDD with parity + bitrot scrubs, disks asleep by day.
Cloudflare tunnels publish services; nothing inbound is open. demo.peterpain.com is one of them.