Servers & Hosting
VPS basics, Nginx, Linux hardening and choosing providers from India.
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Reading Server Logs: Finding the Actual Problem Faster
Where logs live, the journalctl flags worth memorising, reading nginx status codes, and the timezone mistake that hides the real failure.
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Why Your Cheap VPS Keeps Dying: Memory, Swap and the OOM Killer
Read free -h properly, prove the OOM killer acted, add swap with sane swappiness, and size workers so a small box stops falling over.
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Knowing Your Server Is Down Before Your Users Tell You
Why port checks miss real outages, how to build external and on-box monitoring, and thresholds that keep alerts worth reading.
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Deploying a Web App on a VPS with Docker and a Reverse Proxy
Containerise a small app, bind it to loopback, put nginx or Caddy in front for TLS, and keep rollbacks to a one-line image tag change.
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Free HTTPS with Let’s Encrypt: Certificates That Renew Themselves
How ACME validation works, issuing a certificate with certbot, and testing renewal properly so your site never shows an expiry warning.
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DigitalOcean vs Hetzner vs AWS Lightsail vs Oracle Free Tier: An Indian’s Comparison
Four cloud providers compared from India: approximate ₹ costs including GST, Mumbai vs Germany latency, payment friction, and which workload belongs where.
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An Ubuntu Server Security Checklist for Every New VPS
The exact 45-minute hardening routine for a fresh Ubuntu VPS: SSH keys, UFW, fail2ban, auto-updates, swap and backups, tuned for Indian conditions.
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Nginx From Scratch: Host a Real Website on Your Own Server
Install Nginx on Ubuntu, point your domain, add free HTTPS with Certbot, and tune it for Indian mobile visitors, all on a ₹600 VPS.