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Self-Hosting Pitfalls: When Success Signals Mask Failures
A developer details four self-hosting failures where systems reported success while actually broken, including a reverse proxy returning 200 OK with wrong content and a Docker healthcheck that silently failed. These issues caused cryptic sync errors and wasted troubleshooting time. The fixes are simple once identified, but the failures are hard to spot because they return success signals.
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The piece highlights a common blind spot in self-hosted infrastructure: health checks and status codes that lie, making silent failures more dangerous than explicit errors.
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