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If you run a Next.js, WordPress, Laravel, or SaaS production server on Nginx or Apache 2.4 / LiteSpeed in 2026, you have likely noticed two simultan…
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…
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 is available. Gixy analyzes NGINX configurations for security issues. Release notes Fixed Crash on directives nginx itself would reject…
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…
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…
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…
Hey developers 👋 At some point in our development journey, we’ve all played around with domains, subdomains, routes, reverse proxies, and enough DNS…
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…
The Nginx Ingress Controller is a popular Kubernetes Ingress controller that uses Nginx as a reverse proxy and load balancer to route external traff…
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…
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…
Tuning guides talk about throughput. Nobody pages you about throughput. They page you about symptoms, and the useful skill is mapping a symptom back…
I went looking for dropped requests during a rolling restart and found something more annoying than dropped requests: a deploy that looks perfect an…
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…
FastAPI is a modern Python web framework for building high-performance APIs and web applications. It supports asynchronous programming with async /…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Runbooks still say "renew the SSL certificate" when the browser warning is obsolete protocol . The certificate can be brand new. The tunnel is still…
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…
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…
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…
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 and Nginx are reverse proxies that sit in front of web applications, receive user traffic, handle edge behavior such as HTTPS and routing, and…
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…
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…
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…
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…