You don’t need enterprise infrastructure before you’ve earned a dollar.
Control your stack.

Stop paying rent to platforms that profit from your uncertainty.

Built for solo devs and small teams. Calm, opinionated, practical.

Fuck Enterprise Infrastructure

A manifesto for builders who are tired of paying rent to platforms that profit from uncertainty.

The ladder

Free foundation
“I can connect to a server.” (SSH: just enough)
Product C
“I deployed something real and understand it.”
Full course
“I can run production infra properly.”
1:1 advisory
“Tell me what to do for my situation.”

No social media presence. Ads are fine. This is built to compound without performance.

Ship It Cheap — deploy a real app to a VPS

A focused, hands-on mini-course where you deploy a real app to a VPS using Docker and Caddy, ending with a live HTTPS URL you fully understand.

Outcome

“I shipped this, I know what’s running, and I’m not scared of production anymore.”

Stack

VPS • Docker • Caddy • HTTPS • Logs • Basics of ops you’ll actually use

What this is not

  • No AWS account zoo
  • No “platform magic”
  • No DevOps cosplay
  • No theory-first yak shaving

You’ll leave with

  • A VPS you can log into confidently
  • A Dockerized app running in production
  • Caddy handling HTTPS + routing
  • The ability to debug what’s “actually happening”

Want clarity on your specific setup? 1:1 Infra & Architecture Review will be available after launch.

Prerequisite

SSH: Just Enough to Work With Servers (free). No deep theory — just enough to be unblocked.

Get the launch email

No content treadmill. No social presence. Just a heads-up when Ship It Cheap opens — plus occasional notes that are actually useful.

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© 2025 Control Your Stack

A project by Michael Phipps. Sole trader.