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Sizing, operations and the parts of hosting that are usually explained badly. Written by the people who run the platform, mostly because we got tired of answering the same question in tickets.
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Security13 min read
Environment variables and secrets on an app server
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App hosting13 min read
Background jobs on a small server, with or without Redis
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VDS13 min read
Nginx reverse proxy guide: server blocks, TLS and websockets
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VDS13 min read
Docker Compose for small stacks: one file, three services
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Networking13 min read
What a reverse proxy does: TLS, hostnames and forwarded IPs
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Operations13 min read
Discord webhooks for game server status and alerts
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Databases12 min read
MongoDB connection string: URI, mongosh and drivers
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Security15 min read
Rate limiting: where to put limits and how to size them
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Databases14 min read
Connection pools: how to size one and why more is slower
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Databases14 min read
Redis: when you need it, and how to run it yourself
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