Migrating 15 Steam bots off a box that couldn't breathe
Jul 10, 2026
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A 1GB VPS finally gave up trying to keep 15 sessions alive at once — constant reconnect churn, memory pressure, the works. Docker on the NAS didn’t blink taking over the whole fleet. Three accounts needed a fresh 2FA code to log back in; the rest just picked up where they left off.
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Digital IC Design Engineer · Homelab Operator
Digital IC Design engineer with 20+ years of experience — design, verification, scripting, automation, LEC, LINT, SYN. Open to work in Japan/Singapore.
Off the clock I run a home network that’s grown well past reasonable size: a GB10 AI box, a mesh of UniFi and AmpliFi gear, three cameras streaming live, and a small fleet of always-on services that occasionally page me at 2am.