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AI agents have made self-hosting your own server fun for normies

Ellsworth Toohey
Jan 12, 2026
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Running your own home server used to mean spending hours fighting with Docker configs, memorizing arcane Linux commands, and debugging networking issues at 2am. Developer Jordan Fulghum argues that 2026 is the inflection point where that changed — and the reason is CLI agents like Claude Code.

The pitch: a Beelink mini PC, an 8TB…

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