A restic backup setup for a small VPS: encrypted snapshots off-server, Postgres dumps piped straight in, sane retention, a systemd timer, and a restore test.
How I deploy to a single VPS without dropping requests: Docker Compose health checks, a second replica, and Caddy dynamic upstreams. Script and test loop…
depends_on only waits for a container to start. Here is how Docker Compose healthcheck, service_healthy and up --wait fix cold-start failures, plus the restart gap.
I ran Prism's ternary-quantized Bonsai 2 27B, a 27B model squeezed under 6GB, on a GPU-less VPS to test its near-lossless claim. Here's what happened.
I used to open a port every time I needed to show a client a staging dashboard. Here's the Cloudflare Tunnel setup that replaced that…
I installed Coolify and Dokploy on identical Hetzner boxes and moved a client's staging server to one. Here's where they actually differ, not just on…
The Postgres tuning parameters I adjust on every VPS I run, plus what PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 changes for autovacuum, REPACK, and checkpoint tuning.
Postgres encryption at rest is two different questions. What LUKS already covers, what pg_vault_tde adds, what stays plaintext, and the 1.7.1 TOAST upgrade trap.
The post you're reading was published by a Hetzner box that's been up for twenty weeks. My honest Hetzner vs DigitalOcean math after paying both…
pg_statviz 1.2 adds Postgres 19 support and a blocking locks module. How I monitor client databases with snapshots and a systemd timer instead of a…