Tag: VPS – Page 2

Aug 29, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 109

Cloudflare Keeps Having Outages. Here Is What That Means for Your R2 Backups

Cloudflare had a rough run of outages touching R2 in late 2025 and again in 2026. If your backups live only on R2, I think it is worth asking what happens when it goes down. Here is a simple way to add a second copy, and the one habit that actually makes it useful.

Aug 29, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 310

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 · 96

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 · 132

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 · 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 · 234

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 · 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 · 229

Stop Exposing Port 22: SSH to Your VPS Over Tailscale Instead

Close port 22 to the public internet and SSH to your VPS only over your private Tailscale network instead. Setup steps, what it actually costs a solo developer (usually $0), and the single-point-of-failure trade-off worth planning for before you rely on it.

Aug 25, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 124

Laravel Queue Worker Keeps Stopping on Your VPS? Here's the Permanent Fix

Your Laravel queue worker isn't actually broken — it was never told to survive an SSH disconnect. Here's why nohup falls short and how to keep it running permanently with Supervisor.

Aug 25, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 97

How to Disable SSH Password Login on a VPS (And Make It Actually Stick)

Disable SSH password login and switch to key-only authentication on a VPS — including the cloud-init config override that silently breaks this on most guides.

Aug 24, 2026 ·

Asif Mughal · 188

How to Host Multiple Apps on One VPS With Docker and Caddy

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 subdomain, and when label-based routing is worth the switch.