WCP – Own Your Cloud

This project documents building the WeichertLabs Cloud Platform — WCP for short — a fully self-hosted cloud environment running on a single bare metal machine.

The idea is simple: every major cloud subscription you pay for monthly can be replaced by software you run yourself, on hardware you own, with data that never leaves your home. Storage, photo backup, media streaming, AI assistant, password manager, cloud gaming — all of it, on one machine.

WCP is my personal name for this setup — a self-hosted platform that grows and evolves over time, documented here as it gets built.

The hardware

Everything in this series runs on a single machine — a Minisforum BD770i with an RTX 4080 Super. The key design decision is bare metal Ubuntu rather than Proxmox with VMs. The reason: the RTX 4080 Super is the heart of the platform, shared naturally between Ollama, ComfyUI, and Sunshine via CUDA — no GPU passthrough complexity needed.

Disk layout

4TB NVMe (fast)
├── /          OS — Ubuntu
├── /opt/      All services and Docker volumes
├── /mnt/ai/   Ollama models, ComfyUI
└── /mnt/games/ Steam, Epic, GOG libraries

4TB HDD (large)
└── /mnt/media/ Jellyfin — films, series, music

What gets built

Before you start

This series assumes Ubuntu is installed on your machine. Each service is deployed as a Docker container — if you haven’t set up Docker yet, do that first:

• Install Docker and Docker Compose on Linux — required before deploying any service in this series
• Tailscale – Getting Started — set up remote access early, you’ll want it throughout the build

Minimum requirements to follow along

Most services in this series work without a GPU — the GPU is only required for Ollama acceleration, ComfyUI, and Sunshine game streaming.

Two parallel tracks

Like the Proxmox Home Lab series, WCP is documented in two ways:

Track A – Manual walks through every step by hand. Every config file, every command, every mistake.

Track B – Claude Code builds the same platform using Claude Code via SSH — testing how much an AI agent can autonomously configure a real server in 2026.

Series overview