Running a fleet of edge gateways behind one stable service address, with no service registry, no health-check daemon, and no managed load balancer. BGP already does all three.
One9x Pages runs on bare metal in a data centre — not AWS, not GCP, not Azure. The long answer to why I built all of it in 2026: the home lab that broke the spell, the SLA nobody talks about, and where the cost gap actually comes from.