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      <p>I'm now self-hosting my website, the other static websites I maintain and <a href="https://code.oliverdavies.uk">my Forgejo instance</a> that contains my Git repositories.</p>

      <p>These were previously on a VPS (virtual private server) but now are running on my homelab - an old laptop that I've been using to run Jellyfin and other software.</p>

      <p>It's great to know I have full control over my data and to not pay a recurring monthly cost forever to host my website. Later, if I decide my current homelab laptop needs an upgrade, I can do that.</p>

      <p>With NixOS, the transition from the Cloud to my home server was simple and just a case of moving some configuration files from one directory to another as I've set it up in a modular way.</p>

      <p>I've also switched back to Nginx which was also easy to migrate my configuration and redirects using the Nix language and NixOS configuration options.</p>

      <p>My website is a static website, mostly <a href="/presentations/sculpin">generated by Sculpin</a> but there are some pages generated by Tome - <a href="/daily/2025/04/18/static-drupal">a static site generator for Drupal</a>.</p>

      <p>I'm migrating my email list archive and daily pages first and will later move my presentations, podcast episodes and old blog posts, but I'm <a href="/daily/2025/04/17/incrementally">doing it incrementally based on the path</a> so I can do pieces as I can around client work.</p>

      <p>If you like, you can <a href="https://code.oliverdavies.uk/opdavies/nixos-configuraton">see my NixOS configuration</a> that includes my laptop and homelab and <a href="https://code.oliverdavies.uk/opdavies/oliverdavies.uk-tome">my Tome repository</a> and keep track as I migrate things across.</p>

              
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      <p>I'm now self-hosting my website, the other static websites I maintain and <a href="https://code.oliverdavies.uk">my Forgejo instance</a> that contains my Git repositories.</p>

      <p>These were previously on a VPS (virtual private server) but now are running on my homelab - an old laptop that I've been using to run Jellyfin and other software.</p>

      <p>It's great to know I have full control over my data and to not pay a recurring monthly cost forever to host my website. Later, if I decide my current homelab laptop needs an upgrade, I can do that.</p>

      <p>With NixOS, the transition from the Cloud to my home server was simple and just a case of moving some configuration files from one directory to another as I've set it up in a modular way.</p>

      <p>I've also switched back to Nginx which was also easy to migrate my configuration and redirects using the Nix language and NixOS configuration options.</p>

      <p>My website is a static website, mostly <a href="/presentations/sculpin">generated by Sculpin</a> but there are some pages generated by Tome - <a href="/daily/2025/04/18/static-drupal">a static site generator for Drupal</a>.</p>

      <p>I'm migrating my email list archive and daily pages first and will later move my presentations, podcast episodes and old blog posts, but I'm <a href="/daily/2025/04/17/incrementally">doing it incrementally based on the path</a> so I can do pieces as I can around client work.</p>

      <p>If you like, you can <a href="https://code.oliverdavies.uk/opdavies/nixos-configuraton">see my NixOS configuration</a> that includes my laptop and homelab and <a href="https://code.oliverdavies.uk/opdavies/oliverdavies.uk-tome">my Tome repository</a> and keep track as I migrate things across.</p>

              
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