Strapi vs Directus vs Payload: Self-Hosting a Headless CMS on a VPS (2026)
Every few months a client asks me the same question: "We're tired of WordPress — what headless CMS should we self-host?" In the last year alone I've stood up ...
Every few months a client asks me the same question: "We're tired of WordPress — what headless CMS should we self-host?" In the last year alone I've stood up ...
PostgreSQL 18 shipped on September 25, 2025, and the headline feature — asynchronous I/O — is the first reason in years to seriously plan a same-week upgrad...
When I first hit a connection storm on a Laravel app I run on a 4 vCPU Hostinger VPS — the database had 312 idle Postgres backends sitting at 18 GB of RAM whi...
Why Managed Database Hosting Actually Matters in 2026 When I migrated our SmartExam AI Generator backend from a self-managed MySQL instance on a Hostinger VPS ...
The Short Answer Coolify — best for self-hosted PaaS with a broad ecosystem (the "Vercel on your own VPS" experience) Dokploy — best for resource-cons...