A Server Called Mercury

This article describes the author's experience purchasing a physical server from Hetzner, naming it Mercury, and using it to host personal websites via Dokploy, an open-source PaaS. The author, a former Heroku employee, discusses the importance of deployment user experience, the value of open-source tools, and how Dokploy's native docker-compose support simplifies deployment. The piece explores technical details like DNS migration pitfalls, Let's Encrypt rate limits, and the philosophy of making deployment frictionless for developers. It is a tech-focused reflection on infrastructure, DevOps, and the evolution of deployment practices.