Networking13 min read
Where your game server should live: latency by geography
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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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Sizing12 min read
CPU or RAM: which one is actually holding your server back
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Sizing11 min read
What NVMe storage actually changes, and what it does not
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Databases12 min read
Database backups and restores: dumps that come back
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Web hosting13 min read
Point a domain at your server and get an SSL certificate
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Networking13 min read
What a reverse proxy does: TLS, hostnames and forwarded IPs
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Sizing13 min read
Sizing a web app for launch day: cache, queries, headroom
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Sizing14 min read
Shared CPU and noisy neighbours: what you actually rent
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Operations13 min read
Reading a server load graph: memory, CPU and disk
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Operations11 min read
Restart schedules that help, and ones that just interrupt
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