● toa://about

About

One operator, one stack, one design language — a small network of self-hosted apps and websites, built lean on purpose.

tor@toa:~$ whoami

toa:// is a personal brand and web ecosystem built and run by Tor — a Norwegian self-hoster and web developer from Bergen. It gathers every self-hosted app under one recognizable visual language inspired by URL protocols and terminal aesthetics.

The ecosystem

The portal at toaweb.com is the directory; every other app sits under a *.toaweb.com subdomain and inherits the same system. Apps talk to each other over small REST APIs — one auth service, one content service, one design language — so the whole thing reads like one program rather than a pile of sites.

All of it runs on a single dedicated server — one Hetzner AX41-NVMe box — with every app as a Docker container behind Traefik. No cloud sprawl, no per-service bill: one machine, fully owned, doing the whole job.

Built lean on purpose

The internet has a cost, and most of it is waste — heavy images, framework bloat, trackers nobody asked for. toa:// pushes the other way: static HTML, zero raster images, a single cached typeface, dark by default, no third-party scripts. Every page ships less, loads faster, and draws less power. Sustainability here isn't a badge bolted on — it's the same decision as good engineering.

Operator
who Tor
role self-hoster · dev
location Bergen, NO
since 2024
servers 1 · renewable
Stack
Astro 6HugoNuxt 4Vue 3Tailwind v4FastAPIPostgreSQLDockerTraefikCloudflare
Infrastructure
server Hetzner AX41-NVMe
cpu Ryzen 5 3600 · 6c/12t
memory 64 GB DDR4
storage 2× 512 GB NVMe · RAID 1
os Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
runtime Docker 29 · Traefik 3
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Values

Authenticity · Precision · Openness · Craft