Best practices on cloud VPS, dedicated servers, Linux and DevOps.
A MetaTrader VPS that keeps MT4 and MT5 running on its own: automatic re-login after every restart, a web panel for accounts and expert advisors, and Telegram alerts. A tour with screenshots.
Read more →A complete, copy-pasteable path to run n8n on your own Ubuntu VPS with Docker Compose and Postgres: the environment variables that matter, nginx and TLS, and the webhook, timezone and queue-mode traps that catch everyone.
Read more →A copy-pasteable path to run Vaultwarden 1.37.3 behind nginx and TLS on a small VPS, with the security steps that matter: admin token hashing, closed signups, a WebSocket-aware proxy, fail2ban on the login endpoint, and a backup you have actually restored.
Read more →A complete, copy-pasteable path to run Uptime Kuma 2.5.5 on Ubuntu 24.04: systemd unit, nginx reverse proxy with the WebSocket upgrade headers, and Let's Encrypt TLS. Plus the three traps that make the dashboard lie to you.
Read more →A Netherlands VPS in Naaldwijk is peered into AMS-IX in Amsterdam and DE-CIX. Here is what that changes for real traffic: fewer transit hops, shorter paths to European networks, and steadier latency. With a worked traceroute and a plain rule for who should choose it.
Read more →The .ae and .qa spaces are run by regulators with written eligibility rules, and some extensions are closed to anyone without a local licence. Here is who can register .ae, .co.ae, .net.ae and .qa, what documents are needed, and how renewal works.
Read more →KA Panel is Karizanta's own hosting control panel, free with every server we run: sites, per-site PHP, certificates, databases, email with webmail, DNS, backups and customer logins, installed on Debian with one command.
Read more →A command-level checklist for migrating a small agency's WordPress site off shared hosting onto a UK VPS you now run yourself: PHP-FPM sized from RAM, OPcache and Redis, a page cache that never leaks a cart, TLS and HTTP/2, the security layer that carries real weight, and keeping personal data under UK GDPR.
Read more →Stretching three Swarm managers across two datacentres is a documented way to lose your cluster. Here are the two topologies that survive a site loss, the WireGuard plumbing between regions, how to stop the routing mesh dragging traffic over the link, and the storage problem nobody warns you about.
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