I recently migrated all of my hosted applications (including this site mustak.im) to a Virtual Private Server (VPS). Even though it's relatively easy to get something like Azure App Service and deploy ASP.NET Applications there but I find managing my own Private App and Build Server more appealing.

I needed to have a reliable backup since disaster can happen anytime (as I'm managing the server on my own) but I did not want to pay for commercial solutions. I'm not making money out of my sites (these are my dev works, experiments in progress...) so I have access to any free software. However, I wanted to roll out something really simple, fast and light on my own - without installing a beast of a backup software.

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