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First 10 minutes on a new cloud server: security

Internet scanners find a new server within minutes. These steps are the baseline every new server should get.

10 min · Beginner Read guide

Install Docker and Docker Compose on a cloud server

We install the current Docker Engine and Compose plugin from Docker's official repository and start a first app.

10 min · Beginner Read guide

Install Coolify: your own Vercel/Heroku alternative

Coolify is an open-source platform that deploys your apps from Git, spins up databases and manages SSL automatically. It installs with one command.

15 min · Beginner Read guide

Deploy a Node.js / Next.js app on a cloud server

We run the app as a PM2 process, put Nginx in front of it and switch to HTTPS with a free certificate.

20 min · Intermediate Read guide

Deploy a Laravel app on a cloud server (Nginx, PHP 8.3, MySQL)

A production Laravel setup on the classic LEMP stack: Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, a queue worker and scheduled tasks.

25 min · Intermediate Read guide

Install n8n: your own automation server (Docker + automatic SSL)

We run n8n with Docker Compose behind Caddy; Caddy obtains and renews the SSL certificate on its own.

15 min · Beginner Read guide

Run your own LLM on a cloud server with Ollama (CPU)

Ollama downloads and runs open-source language models with one command. Without a GPU, small and medium models run comfortably on CPU.

15 min · Intermediate Read guide