Homelab cleanup: 7 services to 3

I run a couple of small VPS boxes for personal stuff. Over two years they had accumulated seven services: two wikis (why), a gitea nobody used, three monitoring stacks, and things I no longer remember the purpose of.

The keepers:

• Reverse proxy + static sites — one Caddy
• Backups — restic to B2, tested restores quarterly
• Everything else — a single VM per project, torn down when idle

Total RAM used dropped by half, and updating things stopped feeling like defusing a bomb. The lesson is old but keeps being true: run fewer things, and the remaining ones stay alive.

Tags: homelab, minimalism