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Self‑Host Ghost CMS on a VPS with Docker
Deploy Ghost — the open-source publishing platform — on a VPS with Docker, MySQL, Caddy TLS, Mailgun, and continuous deployment via DeployHQ.
OpenSSH on Windows: Why This Changes Everything for Your Deployments
Understand OpenSSH on Windows and build secure cross-platform deployments. Learn setup best practices and how DeployHQ unifies SSH-based automation for teams.
Implementing 12‑Factor App Methodology with DeployHQ
A practical guide to implementing every 12-Factor App principle in real deployments — from storing config in environment variables and treating logs as event streams, to running admin processes as one-off tasks. Includes code examples and DeployHQ setup for atomic deployments, build pipelines, and multi-environment configuration.
How to Install Gitea on Amazon Lightsail: A Comprehensive Guide
Learn how to easily install Gitea, a lightweight Git repository, on Amazon Lightsail. Step-by-step guide with Nginx setup, SSL, and performance tips. Self-host your Git projects today!
OpenAPI Specification: A Practical Guide to API Collaboration and Automation
Practical OpenAPI guide: why it powers team collaboration, how to author one (manual, code-first, AI), and the real difference between OpenAPI and Swagger.
Fail2Ban Configuration Guide: Custom Jails, SSH & CrowdSec
A hands-on Fail2Ban guide: install, configure jail.local, write custom filters, harden SSH, and compare with CrowdSec and Cloudflare WAF.
Deploy Gemini Search to a VPS: A Complete Step-by‑Step Guide
Deploy your own Perplexity-style AI search engine on Ubuntu in under an hour. Step-by-step guide using DeployHQ, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Nginx, and PM2.
5 Ways to Deploy Kirby CMS: Hosting, PHP Requirements & Real Costs
Compare 5 Kirby hosting options (VPS, DeployHQ, Dokku, managed, GitHub Pages) with PHP requirements, real pricing, and operational tradeoffs.
Ruby Application Servers: A Complete Performance and Architecture Guide
Compare Puma, Passenger, Falcon, iodine, and Agoo for Ruby production deployments. Includes real benchmarks, architecture deep dives, Nginx configuration, and practical tuning advice from running Rails in production.
Apache Ant vs NAnt: Build Automation Tools for Java and .NET
How Apache Ant and NAnt automate Java and .NET builds, where they fit in a modern pipeline, and when to migrate to Maven, Gradle or MSBuild.
Deploy n8n on Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 with Docker
Run n8n on an Alibaba Cloud VPS with Docker and Postgres behind Nginx and Let's Encrypt — a production-grade setup with the gotchas every quickstart skips.