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Cloud Infrastructure
Expert guidance on Cloud Infrastructure. These workflows help you take control of your stack and move away from vendor lock-in.
Bespoke server architecture, high-performance hosting, and seamless infrastructure migrations for growing businesses.
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Cloud Infrastructure
xCloud Security Review: Pushing for Secure by Default Docker Hosting
I audited xCloud's Docker hosting. The isolation, AppArmor, and per-app users are solid. Here are the daemon and compose defaults they should ship next.
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Cybersecurity & Hardening
Defense in Depth: A Secure Web Application Architecture Built on Boring Decisions
Defense in depth is what actually keeps a web application secure: seven concentric, independent layers from the perimeter to the database. Boring decisions that compound.
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Cloud Infrastructure
Serverless Hosting Hidden Costs: An Agency Owner's Guide
An honest take on the hidden costs of Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, and Railway: surprise bills, lock-in, and outages an agency can't afford.
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Cloud Infrastructure
Would You Give a Stranger the Keys to Your House? Why I Moved Away from SaaS Cloud Control Panels
SaaS control panels need root access to your servers. After years of using them, I moved to Enhance, a self-hosted panel. The trade-offs, the migration story, and where SaaS still fits.
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Cloud Infrastructure
CyberPanel: My OpenLiteSpeed Stack for Agency WordPress
How I install CyberPanel on a fresh Ubuntu box, harden the LiteSpeed admin, enforce TLS 1.3, and turn on the LSCache crawler for agency WordPress hosting.
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Cloud Infrastructure
Enhance Control Panel: My Agency-Grade cPanel Alternative
How I install Enhance control panel on Hetzner: the multi-server topology, the Cloudflare guardrails, and when the operational tax is worth paying.
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Cloud Infrastructure
Mailcow: My Self-Hosted Email Server vs Google Workspace
How I deploy Mailcow as a self-hosted email server: the Compose stack, the DNS records that decide deliverability, and when I tell clients to stay on Workspace.
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Cloud Infrastructure
Portainer + NPM + Vaultwarden: My Default Self-Hosted Stack
How I deploy Portainer, Nginx Proxy Manager, and Vaultwarden together: the Docker stack, the gotchas, and the operational rules I'd tattoo on a junior engineer.
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Open Source Solutions
PikaPods: Managed Hosting for Self-Hosted Open-Source Apps
PikaPods is a managed hosting service for self-hosted open-source apps from the BorgBase team. From $1/month, no sysadmin skills required. Where it fits and where it doesn't.
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Cloud Infrastructure
LiteSpeed Enterprise: Why I Run It Instead of Apache or Nginx for WordPress
LiteSpeed Enterprise is the web server I default to for WordPress and high-traffic PHP workloads. The technical reasons (event-driven architecture, LSCache, HTTP/3, .htaccess compatibility) and the business reasons it earns its license fee.
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Cloud Infrastructure
Web Server Performance Benchmarks: LiteSpeed Enterprise vs Apache vs Nginx
Real benchmarks on identical hardware: LiteSpeed Enterprise vs Apache vs Nginx for WordPress, with and without caching plugins. The numbers, the setup, and what they mean for your site.