Uses debian 13 as I had difficulties setting up everything in nixos.

Personal Server Setup Guide

This document explains how to rebuild and deploy the personal server stack on a fresh Debian VPS.

The server uses:

• Debian
• Docker CE
• Docker Compose
• Caddy as reverse proxy
• Containers for all self-hosted services
• Git as the source of truth for configuration

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1. Setup the VPS

Recommended:

• Debian 13
• SSH key authentication enabled
• Public IPv4 enabled
• Firewall enabled

After creation:

read IP_ADDRESS
scp bootstrap.sh root@$IP_ADDRESS:
ssh root@$IP_ADDRESS

Then run ./bootstrap.sh

2. Deploy

./scripts/deploy.sh