How I Moved This Site Home (and Why It Wasn't About This Site)
The short version: I was paying around $95 a month to host a pile of small things in the cloud, most of which I barely used. This site was a tiny slice of that. I wanted the whole footprint consolidated onto hardware I own, running at home, for under $20 a month. An AI agent made the setup cheap enough that it was finally worth doing.
This is the record of standing that up. No fluff.