Case studies
Each one is a full write-up of what the client needed, what I did and how it turned out. These are selected projects, not a complete list. Repeat work of the same kind is written up once rather than every time.
Production self-hosted n8n with tested disaster recovery
An n8n instance running in production on my own hardened VPS, with a restore I've tested end to end on a clean server.
Five years of phpBB work for one publisher
Six separate phpBB contracts with the same client between 2016 and 2021. It started with a single extension install and ended with a version upgrade that had to carry a whole set of modified extensions along with it.
Private self-hosted AI stack
A private AI setup on self-managed infrastructure. Local models by default, with a cloud API used only where local hardware isn't enough.
Four years of hosting work for a web agency
Forty-eight orders between 2021 and 2025 for one agency: certificate installs, moves between hosting accounts, server setup, and whatever else broke on the sites they host for their own customers.
A forum where no email worked and nobody could reach the admin panel
Signup confirmations and alerts had stopped sending, so new members couldn't register, and then the admin account locked itself out because password resets went through the same broken email.
Maintaining a long-standing client's Linux servers
A client I'd been doing phpBB work for since 2016 brought me onto their Linux servers: configuration, maintenance, security policy, backups, and a disaster recovery plan behind them.