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Software development Self-Hosting Your Company Stack: 8 Honest Lessons From Our First Weeks
calendar November 12, 2026 author GPO-Tech

Self-Hosting Your Company Stack: 8 Honest Lessons From Our First Weeks

Eight things we learned moving a company off SaaS and onto our own servers, from dirty data and secrets to backups and the single-server risk.

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Software development Anatomy of a €10/Month Company Stack: Ansible, Vault, Postgres and 15 More Services
calendar November 12, 2026 author GPO-Tech

Anatomy of a €10/Month Company Stack: Ansible, Vault, Postgres and 15 More Services

How 18 self-hosted services run for about €10 a month: Ansible, Vault on its own server, isolated Postgres, restic backups to our own MinIO and the trade-offs.

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Software development The Real Cost of HubSpot, Jira, Confluence and Slack in 2026 (and What We Pay Instead)
calendar November 12, 2026 author GPO-Tech

The Real Cost of HubSpot, Jira, Confluence and Slack in 2026 (and What We Pay Instead)

What HubSpot, Jira, Confluence and Slack cost per seat in November 2026, what happens between 3 and 6 seats, and the ~€10/month stack we run instead.

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Software development We Moved Our Company Off €200–400/Month of SaaS and Onto a €10/Month Self-Hosted Stack
calendar November 12, 2026 author GPO-Tech

We Moved Our Company Off €200–400/Month of SaaS and Onto a €10/Month Self-Hosted Stack

Our SaaS bill was €200–400 a month. We cancelled the accounts and rebuilt 18 services on our own servers for ~€10 a month. The bill, the build and the catch.

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Software development WordPress to Astro in One Night with AI: What Actually Got Faster
calendar July 22, 2026 author GPO-Tech

WordPress to Astro in One Night with AI: What Actually Got Faster

We rebuilt a product site from WordPress to Astro in one night using AI. The real bottleneck wasn't writing content — it was getting content that already existed onto the site.

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