NetBay journal

Guides for operators

Practical guides for Linux, containers, CI/CD, self-hosting, and running VPS infrastructure from Netbay Engineering.

499 articles · 24 topics

Use sidecar containers for log forwarding and certificate renewal on a single VPS without adding cluster complexity or vendor lock-in.

A decision framework for whether to resize a VPS or fix the code instead, based on the actual shape of the bottleneck rather than guesswork.

Use df, du, and ncdu to find what is consuming disk space and track inode usage before your VPS runs out.

Deploy AIDE to hash and snapshot critical files, detect tampering, and answer "was this file changed against policy" with a defensible audit trail.

Design retention tiers that match RPO and compliance, then prune safely with age-based policies and deduplicating backup tools on VPS hosts.

Pick a distribution the way you would exit it: inventory workloads, score realistic paths including doing nothing, and design the migration first.

Protect public endpoints with rate limiting, cost budgets, and anomaly detection that surface abuse before it drains your API capacity.

Watch active connections, timeouts, and upstream failures with built-in proxy metrics, and set thresholds that actually warn you before users do.

A clear-eyed breakdown of integration, delivery, and deployment, with the automation boundaries that actually matter.

A step-by-step playbook for failed units: read status and exit codes, chase logs and coredumps, and fix the six most common systemd failure modes.

Track projects on a self-hosted kanban board with Planka or Focalboard and Docker Compose, with unlimited cards, views, and a scriptable API.

Learn how to automate VPS deployment, query IP stock, and manage proxy credentials using X-API-Key and X-API-Secret authentication.