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2026-07-12

Setting up a VPS for Docker: from cloud-init to production

Step by step to a server you can be proud of: users and SSH keys via cloud-init, Docker with sane logging, firewall and unattended upgrades. All reproducible, as code.

2026-06-28

DIY server monitoring: Prometheus + Grafana in one evening

Metrics, a dashboard and Telegram alerts — no SaaS subscriptions, no extra agents. One compose file, three services, and you learn about problems before your customers do.

2026-06-15

Self-hosted LLMs in production: Ollama, quantization and hardware limits

Which model fits your server, what it costs, and when an API is actually cheaper. We do the memory math, pick a quant and serve the model over HTTP.

2026-05-30

CI/CD for a small team: GitHub Actions without the pain

Deploy on push to main, secrets, rollbacks. One workflow file you can copy — no Jenkins, no dedicated CI server.

2026-05-11

Backups that actually restore: 3-2-1 in practice

restic + S3-compatible storage, restore checks on cron, and an alert if a backup goes silent. A backup nobody has tested is a lottery ticket.

2026-04-19

Failover without Kubernetes: when k8s is overkill

docker compose + healthchecks + a standby server: 99.9% uptime with no cluster. Kubernetes solves problems of a scale most projects never reach.

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