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## Mission

This is a journey about reducing cloud dependency, creating simple manageable solutions, reducing fixed costs, and most importantly learning and growing. My mission is to help people get a grasp of their tech stack while simultaneously educating the public on why privacy matters. As of writing this tech stack consists of a Synology NAS running most of my self hosting needs.

### This site is entirely self hosted using:

- Gitea - Secured private code management
- Odoo - This website and most other business processes
- Wireguard VPN - Secure Remote Admin Access to all services
- Nginx - Reverse Proxy with SSL for this site
- Dyanamic DNS - No static ip needed
- Synology for Data - Management

