The Complete Backup Strategy for a Solo-Run VPS: Five Layers, One Runbook
Restic backups, uptime monitoring, provider outages, and certificate renewal are usually written about one at a time. Here is how all five layers of a…
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Docker, Docker Compose, reverse proxies, Tailscale and running your own apps on one server.
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Restic backups, uptime monitoring, provider outages, and certificate renewal are usually written about one at a time. Here is how all five layers of a…
Let's Encrypt is shortening certificate lifetimes over the next few years, and a lot of advice is telling people to check their renewal automation. If…
Caddy 2.11.3 shipped a regression that breaks Caddyfiles using multiple localhost-based site blocks on different ports, exactly the pattern from our m…
Caddy showing 502 Bad Gateway for a containerized app? Diagnose it in the right order — Docker networking, bind addresses, port mismatches, and startu…
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 s…
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…
How to run several apps on a single cheap VPS using Docker and Caddy — shared network setup, working Caddyfile examples, free auto-renewing HTTPS per…