Every server I run leans on a pile of credentials: database passwords, FTP logins, API keys for Pexels and OpenAI, IndexNow tokens, deploy hooks. Across the se...
Three years ago the open-source virtualization conversation was basically "Proxmox or VMware." VMware's 2024 licensing overhaul under Broadcom blew that up, an...
Last month I needed to host a small internal control plane for one of our client projects — nothing fancy, just three services, a Postgres pod, and a job runn...
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 started looking at self-hosted alternatives for the AI features inside our internal stack — specifically SmartExam (an AI question generator), DocSumm ...
TL;DR — which one I would deploy today If you have less than 2 GB free RAM on a typical $7 KVM VPS and you need full-text search with typo tolerance for a web...
Connecting a fleet of VPS instances that span Hostinger shared, Hetzner cloud, and a couple of bare-metal boxes used to mean port-forwards, IP allowlists, and t...
Across the seven aggregator sites I run on Hostinger shared and a handful of VPS boxes, I keep coming back to the same question: when does SQLite stop being a "...
If you're running Redis on a VPS in 2026, you've probably hit the same crossroads I did six months ago: Redis went AGPLv3, your hyperscaler quietly migrated to ...
Three years ago I picked Nginx for everything because it was the default in every Laravel deployment guide I had ever read. Today I am running a mix of Caddy, N...
Why Your Choice of VPS Control Panel Actually Matters When I migrated the first three of my seven aggregator sites from Hostinger shared to VPS last year, the ...
Three months ago I paid $340 for a Ubiquiti UDM Pro to handle routing and firewall duties for a small office network I manage. It died after 11 weeks. The fan b...
Wednesday morning. 6:43 AM. I'm scrolling Hacker News while my instant noodles steep (yes, I eat instant noodles for breakfast — judge me later). A post with...
LocalStack Just Killed Its Free Tier and I Almost Panicked — Then I Found Floci I got the email on a Monday morning. March 3rd, 2026. Coffee in hand, Slack a...
A few weeks ago, my friend Kat — who runs a small Etsy shop that somehow grew into a real business — called me in mild panic. "James, I am paying $47 a mont...
At 10:53 AM on March 17, 2026, CISA — the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — added CVE-2025-47813 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilitie...
Three months ago, around 10:30 PM on a Tuesday, I made a decision that my accountant would later describe as "creatively wasteful." I spun up identical servers ...
I got a Slack message at 6:14 AM on Friday from Tom, our sysadmin. Just a link to an INTERPOL press release and the words "we should probably check our stuff." ...
I need to tell you about something that happened at 2:30 AM last Thursday. I was doing what every responsible infrastructure engineer does at 2:30 AM — lying ...
I thought I had seen every hardware grift in the book. Relabeled Xeon processors with fake IPC claims. "Enterprise grade" SSDs that turned out to be QLC NAND wi...
A Fedora Linux developer named Marcin Juszkiewicz published a blog post yesterday with the kind of title that makes server hardware enthusiasts either nod knowi...
I have been using SSH almost every day for the past twelve years. I manage servers for a living. I have typed ssh user@host more times than I have said “g...
Three AM on a Saturday. My phone buzzes. It's an uptime alert — my client's e-commerce store just went down during a flash sale. 2,300 people trying to buy di...