I wrote up a detailed breakdown of a small home server I’ve been running on a Raspberry Pi (~3W power draw, about $1/month).
It started as a way to automate a weekly dance newsletter, but turned into a full setup:
- scraping pipeline (browser-based, runs on cron)
- remote dev from my phone using Claude Code
- private networking via Tailscale (no public-facing IP)
- Django backend + Telegram bot for publishing
One unexpected benefit: scraping from a residential IP has been much more reliable than using a VPS.
I tried to focus on the tradeoffs and why I chose each piece, not just the tools.
It started as a way to automate a weekly dance newsletter, but turned into a full setup:
- scraping pipeline (browser-based, runs on cron) - remote dev from my phone using Claude Code - private networking via Tailscale (no public-facing IP) - Django backend + Telegram bot for publishing
One unexpected benefit: scraping from a residential IP has been much more reliable than using a VPS.
I tried to focus on the tradeoffs and why I chose each piece, not just the tools.
Hope it gives some inspiration and/or you can share your own home server setups: https://bhave.sh/how-cheap-agent-dev-server/