2. Introduction
3. 1. What this book is about and who it's for
4. 2. How the book is structured
5. 3. Setting expectations
7. Why Self-Host?
8. 4. Public Cloud Pitfalls
9. 5. Problems with free tiers
10. 6. Problems with "budget" DBs
11. 7. My self-hosting journey
13. The Foundations
14. 8. Choosing Your Self-Hosting Setup
15. 1. 8.1. Why a Mini PC for Self Hosting
    2. 8.2. Why VMs for Self Hosting
16. 9. Choosing your hardware
17. 10. Choosing your OS
18. 11. Setting up your Server
19. 1. 11.1. Server Hardening
    2. 11.2. SSH
    3. 11.3. Installing Docker and Docker Swarm
20. 12. Section Recap
22. Making It Public
23. 13. Why not port-forward?
24. 14. Cloudflare Tunnels
25. 15. Setting up a Cloudflare account + Domain
26. 16. Creating a Cloudflare Tunnel
27. 17. Section Recap
29. Hosting All the Things
30. 18. Hello, Tunnel!
31. 19. Introducing Our Sample App
32. 20. Databases
33. 1. 20.1. Exposing for Local Access
34. 21. APIs
35. 22. Connecting Services with Docker Networking
36. 23. Docker Swarm
37. 1. 23.1. Moving to Docker Swarm
38. 24. Reverse Proxies
39. 1. 24.1. Using the Proxy
40. 25. Object Storage
42. Developer’s Playground
43. 26. Deploying pet projects
44. 1. 26.1. CI/CD with GitHub Actions
    2. 26.2. Automating updates in Docker Swarm
    3. 26.3. Hosting frontends on Vercel
45. 27. Dev & prod connections
46. 28. Backups with rclone
48. Beyond the Basics
49. 29. Monitoring and logging
50. 30. Caching
51. 31. What else to host?
53. Wrapping Up
54. 32. Cost breakdown
55. 33. Troubleshooting checklist
56. 34. Templates and config
57. 35. Links for further learning