Nginx Proxy Manager with Docker: Proxy Hosts and Free SSL
Once you run more than one self-hosted app, you hit the same problem every time. Each app wants its own port, and none of them has HTTPS. Nginx Prox…
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Securing an Angular Application: Part 3 — Implementing CSP with Nginx
Continuing my series on hardening Angular applications , Part 3 moves into the actual Nginx server configuration and Content Security Policy (CSP) i…
Gixy v0.2.55: release notes
Gixy v0.2.55 is available. Gixy analyzes NGINX configurations for security issues. Release notes Fixed Crash on directives nginx itself would reject…
Build a Grafana Geomap of Traffic and Threat Score
A Grafana Geomap showing traffic by country and coloured by threat score takes about an hour to build. Almost none of that hour is the map. The map…
504 vs 503: What Actually Triggers Each in nginx, ALB, and Cloudflare
You're staring at a 5xx in your logs at 2am. Is it a 503 or a 504, and does the difference actually change what you do next? Yes — a lot. 503 means…
Enabling HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 for Your Laravel App: A Practical Nginx Guide
Open your Laravel app on a phone with two bars of signal and watch the network waterfall. On HTTP/1.1, the browser opens six TCP connections and que…
Path-Based Routing with Reverse Proxy: Serving Multiple Websites from One Domain
Hey developers 👋 At some point in our development journey, we’ve all played around with domains, subdomains, routes, reverse proxies, and enough DNS…
Installing WordPress on Ubuntu 24.04
WordPress is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) built with PHP and backed by MySQL or MariaDB. It began as a blogging tool and has…
Setting Up Nginx Ingress Controller with SSL on Kubernetes
The Nginx Ingress Controller is a popular Kubernetes Ingress controller that uses Nginx as a reverse proxy and load balancer to route external traff…
Deploying a Matrix Synapse Chat Server with Element on Ubuntu 22.04
Matrix is a set of open APIs for decentralized and end-to-end encrypted communication. It works across a collection of federation servers to deliver…
nginx silently rejects the new HTTP QUERY method
RFC 10008 went to Proposed Standard in June. It adds QUERY, a new HTTP method. Safe and idempotent like GET, but it carries a body like POST. On pap…
Three PHP-FPM failure modes and how to actually diagnose them
Tuning guides talk about throughput. Nobody pages you about throughput. They page you about symptoms, and the useful skill is mapping a symptom back…
Your zero-downtime deploy is probably fine. Check your p99 before you believe it.
I went looking for dropped requests during a rolling restart and found something more annoying than dropped requests: a deploy that looks perfect an…
A coding assistant drafted my Nginx config. Here’s what I still had to verify
I asked a coding assistant to draft an Nginx config for a small Laravel app on an Ubuntu VPS. It produced something usable in seconds. That is the u…
Deploying a FastAPI Application with Gunicorn and Nginx on Ubuntu 24.04
FastAPI is a modern Python web framework for building high-performance APIs and web applications. It supports asynchronous programming with async /…
Deploying Next.js on a VPS: The 12 Things Nobody Tells You
Moving a Next.js app off Vercel and onto a plain Ubuntu VPS usually starts with a painful realization: either your serverless functions are timing o…
One Second Without DNS, Eight Hours Offline
A syndication job noticed before I did A scheduled task publishes one blog post a day to a developer community. It fetches the article from my own s…
The nginx misconfigurations that fail silently
Most nginx misconfigurations announce themselves. You typo a directive, nginx -t fails, you fix it. That feedback loop is fast and it works. The dan…
Nginx, Caddy, Traefik, or HAProxy: How to Pick the Right Reverse Proxy for Your Stack (2026)
Have you ever heard "Caddy is great" and wondered what actually makes it different from Nginx? Or maybe you were evaluating Traefik for a Kubernetes…
Stop saying SSL: TLS only does three jobs, and your 'SSL cert' is usually not the outage
Runbooks still say "renew the SSL certificate" when the browser warning is obsolete protocol . The certificate can be brand new. The tunnel is still…
nginx is not the bug. Two lines of your config are. CVE-2026-42945 on a live stand
A critical nginx vulnerability, 9.2 on CVSS, sat in the code for eighteen years. It was found not by a human but by an AI agent, and six hours were…
100 Days of DevOps and Cloud (AWS), Day 26: Origin Is Just a Nickname, and Localhost Tells the Truth
A lot of confusion in this field comes from taking a name at face value. origin sounds like it means something. A server that "isn't working" sounds…
"nginx doesn't run your config top to bottom: two traps with rewrite, try_files, and if"
You write a rewrite , then a try_files right under it, and you read it as "the rewrite on top runs first, the try_files below runs after." You put a…
Why I Stopped Trusting "It Works on My Machine" and Actually Learned to Ship
I'll be honest about where this started. I could run docker-compose up and get an app running locally. I could follow a tutorial and end up with som…
Caddy vs Nginx: Which Reverse Proxy Should You Use in 2026?
Caddy and Nginx are reverse proxies that sit in front of web applications, receive user traffic, handle edge behavior such as HTTPS and routing, and…
Nineteen Subdomains, One Allowed IP
One DNS record covers the whole box: *.example.com → 203.0.113.10 . I set it once, and publishing a service has not involved DNS since. I pick a nam…
Deploying ImgProxy – Process, Resize, Convert Images on the Fly
ImgProxy is an open-source image-processing server — resize, convert, and transform images on the fly via URL parameters, ideal as a caching layer i…
Deploying Gradio on Ubuntu 22.04
Gradio is a Python library for wrapping any ML model in a web interface, ready to deploy and scale as an app. This guide builds a GFPGAN-powered fac…
Installing Nginx UI – An Open-Source WebUI for Nginx
Nginx UI is an open-source web GUI for managing Nginx, single-node or clustered, with real-time stats, automatic Let's Encrypt TLS, performance moni…
Deploying Laravel with Nginx on Ubuntu 24.04
Laravel is a popular PHP framework with routing, authentication, and database management built in. This guide deploys a Laravel app behind Nginx on…