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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Real 2026 pricing for running a personal project, a small WordPress site, a Laravel/PHP SaaS, and a small business site in the cloud — VPS, storage, backups, domain, email, and monitoring costs, broken down honestly.
