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Aug 29, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 311

Why Your Sudoers Rule Stopped Working on Ubuntu 26.04 (sudo-rs Wildcard Change)

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS quietly made sudo-rs the default sudo. If your sudoers rules use a wildcard inside command arguments, they will silently stop matching. Here is what changed and how to fix it.

Aug 29, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 97

Locked Out of Your VPS After Enabling UFW? Here's the Fix (and How to Avoid It)

Enabling UFW without allowing SSH first is one of the most common ways people lock themselves out of a VPS. Here's the correct order, the gotcha if you've changed your SSH port, and how to recover if it's already happened.

Aug 28, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 134

Is Laravel Octane Worth It on a Budget VPS? The RAM Math for a Solo Project

Octane's speed gain is real, but on a small VPS the cost isn't a benchmark footnote — it's a standing RAM commitment plus a new bug class to manage. Here's the actual worker-memory math for deciding whether Octane is worth it for a solo project, versus staying on PHP-FPM.

Aug 28, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 136

Fix Caddy 502 Bad Gateway With Docker Compose (Step-by-Step Diagnosis)

Caddy showing 502 Bad Gateway for a containerized app? Diagnose it in the right order — Docker networking, bind addresses, port mismatches, and startup races — instead of guessing.

Aug 28, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 72

Your Backup Script Can Fail Silently — Here's How to Actually Find Out

Restic backups fail silently more often than loudly — a flaky network, an expired token, a full disk — and cron won't tell you. Here's how to wire a self-hosted Healthchecks dead man's switch into a restic backup script, and the single setup mistake that quietly defeats the whole point.

Aug 28, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 113

Fix "mysqldump: Access denied... (using password: NO)" in an Automated Backup Script

Your mysqldump command works when you type it yourself but fails from cron with "Access denied... using password: NO"? Here's the actual cause (it's not your password) and the right fix for an automated backup script.

Aug 28, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 237

Docker Won't Restart an "Unhealthy" Container — Here's What Actually Will

Docker doesn't restart a container just because it's marked unhealthy — that's the single most common misconception in self-hosted Docker setups. Here's how healthchecks and restart policies actually relate, and the exact setup that makes a self-hosted app genuinely recover on its own.

Aug 27, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 713

MinIO's Open-Source Edition Is Archived — What That Means If You're Self-Hosting It

MinIO's open-source Community Edition was archived on GitHub in April 2026 after a year of quietly stripping features and redirecting users to its paid AIStor product. If you're self-hosting MinIO for backups or app storage, here's exactly what changed, why your running deployment is the risk (not the fix), and where to actually migrate.

Aug 27, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 1,250

Cloudflare Pages' Free Tier: When It's Actually Enough to Skip a VPS

Cloudflare Pages offers unmetered static bandwidth on its free tier — genuinely enough to host a small SaaS's marketing site and docs for $0. Here's exactly where that holds up, and the Workers request cap that kicks in the moment your site needs a server.

Aug 27, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 103

How to Set Up Redis Object Cache for WordPress Without Running Out of Memory

Add Redis object caching to WordPress without triggering the same out-of-memory problem you may have just fixed — with a memory budget sized to your actual VPS tier.

Aug 27, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 101

VPS Running Out of Memory? How to Set Up Swap Properly (and Fix the Real Cause)

A small VPS running out of RAM is one of the most common ways WordPress and Laravel sites go down. Here's how to size and set up a swap file properly, tune swappiness, and fix the MySQL setting that's usually the real cause.

Aug 26, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 126

How to Automatically Back Up a MySQL Database to Cloudflare R2

Automate MySQL/MariaDB backups to Cloudflare R2 with rclone and a cron or systemd timer — and, unlike most guides, actually verify the backup restores before you need it to.