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Practical guides for Linux, containers, CI/CD, self-hosting, and running VPS infrastructure from Netbay Engineering.
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Master the difference between starting and enabling services, read systemctl status like a diagnostic tool, and control any systemd unit with confidence.
Put nginx in front of PHP-FPM on Ubuntu 24.04 so static files, TLS, and PHP workers stay isolated, then ship a unix-socket vhost ready for production traffic.
Turn a chat model into a working agent on a Linux VPS by implementing the observe-plan-act loop, tool calls, and a stop condition you can audit.
Wire a GitHub Action that asks an agent to plan a deploy, then SSHs a pinned script to a Lucknow VPS so pull requests land on a real host, not a slide deck.
A factor-by-factor walkthrough that turns the Twelve-Factor methodology into concrete choices for deploying an app on a single Linux VPS of your own.
Set up SSH key pairs on your Linux VPS and disable password logins to eliminate brute-force attacks in minutes.
Pin base images, merge RUN layers, drop build tooling, and switch to a non-root user to ship Dockerfiles that produce smaller, safer images on rebuild.
Branch protection controls exactly how code reaches main: required reviews, status checks, merge queues, and rulesets. Configure it correctly once.
A practical framework for choosing backup frequency, retention, and tools by measuring the RPO and RTO your production application can tolerate.
Build a React SPA once, serve dist/ with Nginx, and set cache headers so hashed assets live for a year while index.html revalidates on every load.
A lean Ubuntu Server 24.04 baseline for real workloads: unattended security updates, UFW, SSH hardening, and key-only logins in about twenty minutes.
Structure an efficient GitHub Actions file into workflows, jobs and steps; parallelize with needs, scope each concern, and keep pipelines easy to review.