Infrastructure

Zero-downtime deploys aren’t a load-balancer problem. They’re an overlap, readiness, and drain problem, and for one process on one machine, the tools already on a Linux box cover all three, whether or not you can change the code.

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.

Hosting one WordPress site is simple, but what about a million? Explore the architectural challenges and solutions for building a WordPress hosting platform that scales from 1 to 1 million sites without breaking.