Why I Built a Fully Self-Hosted Music Infrastructure

Got the email again — another price hike from Wix.

I’d let them host my website and email from the start. It was the easy button. Just get something online and move on. I told myself I had more important things to focus on: making music, helping people, building something real.

That easy button faded into the background. I didn’t think about it — and it showed. My site sat there, stale and lifeless. No updates, no intention. Just a digital business card collecting dust.

And every year, when that renewal email came, I wondered: Why am I still doing this?

Meanwhile, my email — my direct line to every artist I work with — was tied to Google, a company I’ve never trusted. How did I end up here?

I had two options: keep drifting, or rebuild something that felt like mine.

Within two weeks, I canceled both accounts. Moved my site. Moved my mail.

It felt good to own my data. It felt even better to build it myself. Turns out, it wasn’t just empowering — it was fun.

There are tradeoffs, though.

The same belief that led me to Wix in the first place — that I had more important things to do — was actually stifling my creativity.

Now that I own my site, sure, I’m spending time setting it up. But it’s different. It’s not a distraction — it’s fuel.

I’m thinking about human connection again. About sharing knowledge, not hoarding it. That was my original why, and somewhere along the way, I lost it.

By breaking it all down and building it myself, I didn’t just launch a new website.

I lit a fire.