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I Self-Hosted 4 Projects on Hetzner + Coolify. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

Coolify and Hetzner make self-hosting look cheap and easy. After deploying 4 projects, I faced government security warnings, forced migrations, and hidden time costs.

2/24/2026

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Hetzner + Coolify Hardening Checklist: A Battle-Tested Guide

Security, networking, Docker, and operations best practices learned from deploying 4 projects on Hetzner VPS with Coolify. Every item comes from a real incident.

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Listmonk + Resend + Coolify: Sending Email Without SMTP on Hetzner

Hetzner Cloud blocks SMTP ports. The technical detail of how I solved that by running Listmonk on Coolify and bridging to the Resend HTTP API with a Cloudflare Worker postback proxy.

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How I Picked an Email Automation Stack as a Solo Dev: 8 Services Compared, Centralised at $0

Resend, Mailchimp, Klaviyo, a Notion CRM and manual emails across 4 projects. All scattered, all managed separately. I compared 8+ services and centralised on Listmonk + Inngest + Resend, at a marginal cost of $0.