Practical, copy-pasteable guides for deploying and running apps on your own servers.
Step-by-step deployment notes: pick a stack, wire up the server, ship it, and keep it running at 3am.
A decision guide and working configs for running your own HTTP tunnel on a VPS - SSH reverse tunnels with autossh, self-hosted relays (frp, rathole, bore, chisel), and what Cloudflare Tunnel and Tailscale Funnel still do for you.…
Read more →PostgreSQL 19 is close to general availability. What actually changed for self-hosted databases on a VPS, which beta features got pulled, and a step-by-step pg_upgrade plan from 18 you can run when GA lands.…
Read more →nginx 1.31.6 (and 1.30.5) fix CVE-2026-90439, a heap buffer overflow in the HTTP/3 module that fires when running OpenSSL 3.5.0 and earlier. How to tell if your reverse proxy is affected, and how to upgrade.…
Read more →Nginx 1.31.5 brings the Control API to open source. Reload the config with a PATCH over a Unix socket, get JSON feedback instead of tailing error.log, and wire it into your deploy pipeline.…
Read more →What proxy_pass really does, the headers that matter, and a complete hardened Nginx reverse proxy config you can copy onto your own VPS.…
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