About
Simple Life is one developer's notebook: self-hosted services, cloud server picks, .NET development and deployment, and a running experiment with FIRE (financial independence, retire early). It has been updated since 2023.
About the author
ansh has been building with .NET since 2014, mostly ASP.NET Core back ends and deployment work — Linux, Docker, CI/CD pipelines and a long series of cloud servers.
What is covered here
- Development: .NET, MAUI, tooling and automated deployment workflows
- Cloud servers: real comparisons and pitfalls of Hong Kong and Singapore instances
- Self-hosting: installing, migrating and maintaining services like the Qinglong panel
- FIRE: budgeting, cutting costs, and what financial independence looks like in practice
Why write
It started as notes to myself, because the same problem gets forgotten within six months. Then some of the posts turned out to help people arriving from search engines, so the notes kept going.
A note on the content
Everything here is based on personal experience; results vary with your environment, so judge the risk yourself. Nothing on this site represents an official position of any third-party service. Some posts contain affiliate links, which are disclosed in the article.
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