Self-Hosting Your Studio: Running Your Own Web, Media, and Render Servers
Renting everything adds up, and your work lives on other people's computers. A practical look at self-hosting your studio's web, media, and render services.
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Trades, drone, photography, VFX, gaming, van life, and the practical reality of building a multi-lane studio in Regina.
Renting everything adds up, and your work lives on other people's computers. A practical look at self-hosting your studio's web, media, and render services.
Creative work generates huge files, and losing them is the one failure you can't undo. How to build a home NAS, why RAID isn't...
A home server turns a pile of drives into a real system: central storage, backup, media serving, remote access, even rendering. What a creator...
A well-chosen workstation can do work that once needed a render farm. How to spec a home render and AI machine for filmmaking, where...
Running AI generation on your own hardware means unlimited iteration, real privacy, and no per-generation bill. How and when to run AI video locally.
The creative tools get the attention, but infrastructure lets a small studio work like a big one. A look under the hood at the...
Digitization isn't as big or costly as it sounds. Start with a pilot, scope it to your goal, and grow. What drives the budget...
A scan on a hard drive helps no one. Turn preserved heritage into searchable archives and virtual museums that open a collection to researchers...
The world's most remarkable heritage is rarely beside a highway. We fly in, rope in, and travel to remote sites to document and preserve...
Climate, conflict, looting, and tourism are erasing heritage sites. 3D scanning is triage: a fast, non-destructive record that can even become a blueprint for...