
Things worth writing down
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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Guides15 min read
Factorio headless server: setup, settings and admins
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Sizing13 min read
Sizing a web app for launch day: cache, queries, headroom
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App hosting14 min read
Deploy FastAPI or Flask: uvicorn, gunicorn and workers
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VDS13 min read
Nginx reverse proxy guide: server blocks, TLS and websockets
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Networking13 min read
What a reverse proxy does: TLS, hostnames and forwarded IPs
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Web hosting13 min read
Point a domain at your server and get an SSL certificate
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Operations13 min read
Reading a server load graph: memory, CPU and disk
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Web hosting11 min read
TTFB and Core Web Vitals: what hosting actually changes
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Web hosting12 min read
WordPress speed and caching: what actually moves TTFB
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Guides15 min read
SCP: Secret Laboratory server guide: config and plugins
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