Last Tuesday at 06:00 AM, when the Pipeline-health monitor sent a 'DEGRADED' email, I knew exactly what was coming. It was the silent scream of the systems I built and manage myself. The price of building my own ecosystem as an indie hacker means being on call 24/7. In this post, I'll share how I experience the on-call responsibility for my own systems, what happened to me, and what I learned in the process. Most people think of on-call as a task rotated among teams within the complex infrastructures of large companies. For me, the situation is a bit different; on-call is a continuous conversation between me and my VPS, which hosts my 13+ Docker containers. This conversation usually starts with the sound of an alarm at midnight or while I'm having breakfast on a weekend. This situation is more than just a technical task; it's also a mental burden. Living with the thought that something could go wrong at any moment affects my productivity and even the quality of my rest.…