Homelab · Companies · Politics
Notes from running my own infrastructure — and my own companies.
I write about what I actually run: self-hosted services, the companies I've founded, and the politics that shape both — with no sponsored takes and no funnel.
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July 9, 2026
How an empty firewall file bricked my whole network
A deploy pipeline run from the wrong directory truncated my OpenWrt firewall config to 0 bytes. Postmortem: symptoms, red herrings, recovery, lessons.
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What I do with each company
A tour of the five ventures I build and run: IT consulting, EU-sovereign hosting, a privacy-first health app, app development, and chemistry software.
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Who I am
Anton Anders is a developer and founder from the greater Leipzig area. He builds companies, runs a homelab, and writes about self-hosting and sovereignty.
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What I build
ANDERS IT
Founder
IT consulting for DACH SMEs: self-hosting, digital sovereignty, NIS2/GDPR and local AI.
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cloudsourced
Founder
EU-sovereign managed open-source hosting platform.
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Avelia Health
Co-Founder
Privacy-first app for couples, from fertility through early childhood.
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DroidSolutions / KULDIG
Co-Founder
App development from Leipzig; KULDIG builds digital culture products.
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Pauly Predictions
Co-Founder
Software for predicting physicochemical properties of chemicals — a UFZ spin-off.
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