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Kamatera's 30-day free trial comes with significantly more nuance than the marketing headline suggests. "30 days free" is technically accurate, but there are strict guardrails governing what that credit covers — and misreading them is the #1 reason...

Introduction Directus is a backend for developers. It can connect to any SQL database and asset storage, and it provides developer tooling — which the Directus team calls the "Data Engine" — alongside a web application that lets both developers and...

Introduction What is Ansible? Ansible is an automation language that can describe any IT environment, whether home-lab or large-scale infrastructure. It is easy to learn, beautiful code that reads like clear documentation. There are many repetitiv...

Introduction Continuing on our developer's journey, we will manage our Directus backend, supported by a PostgreSQL database and a Redis cache. To pull this off, we will need a VPS. As I would have stated in my previous post, we have to manage our V...

Introduction In the last post, we talked about the VPS and why it is a compelling option for hosting your web applications. I mentioned a tool called Coolify that makes managing a VPS significantly easier. In this post, we are going to dive deeper i...

If you’ve ever pushed a deployment that worked perfectly on your machine but failed instantly on the server there’s a good chance Linux file permissions were involved. Few things are as frustrating as a broken deployment caused by a simple Permissio...

Keeping your VPS running smoothly isn’t just about deploying code and hoping for the best. Servers can run out of disk space, spike in CPU usage, or silently go down especially when you’re not watching. For solo developers, startups, and small teams,...

A Simple Guide to Make Your VPS Safer — Even If You're Just Starting Out Your VPS Virtual Private Server is like your home on the internet — and just like a home, it needs locks, fences, and security cameras to stay safe. This guide will walk you ...

Backing up MySQL databases is essential for data security and disaster recovery. In this article, we continue from our previous post and provide a script to automate MySQL database backups from a VPS to a local machine. This script ensures your backu...

Managing a VPS Virtual Private Server with a MySQL database? Then you know how important regular backups are! A single accidental command, server crash, or unexpected failure can wipe out critical data in seconds. That’s why automating backu...