The biggest mistake I made was high uptime. arjie.com was up for 10 years plus on a Hetzner VPS so that by the time they wanted to sunset the machine underlying I had no idea what my teenage self had set up. I have the backups but the site hasn’t been up in a decade…
Nowadays I build things so that they move and I have moved things about a bit so I know they work.
Nowadays I build things so that they move and I have moved things about a bit so I know they work.