Self-Hosting

I wanted Obsidian web on Proxmox, but I did not want to go through the entire dancing around it. I already use Obsidian for everything. Notes, knowledge base, Quartz, Rabin.blog, random bits of brain dump. So when I started looking at Ignis, the goal was not some grand replacement story. It was something simpler: can I use Obsidian from the browser and phone? will it support the plugins can I keep it private? can I avoid certificate warnings bothering me? can I keep this low-effort enough that I will actually use it? Honestly, that is the real test in homelab land. ...

The Quartz 5 site looked straightforward until I started treating it like a real published system instead of a pleasant little garden experiment. That is usually when the interesting parts show up: the boundary between authored content and infrastructure, the comment system integration, the analytics wiring, and the question of how to keep upgrades possible without turning the whole thing into a bespoke fork. This is the cleaned-up version of the implementation work behind mind.ruhanirabin.com. I am keeping the examples public-safe, so all hostnames, paths, and site values below are sample values only. This digital garden is hosted with Cloudflare Pages. ...