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Practical guides to deploying, hosting and operating web apps on infrastructure you control: Docker, Coolify, VPS setups, CI/CD and production hardening.
DevOps & Self-Hosting
I installed Coolify 4.4.6 and Dokploy 0.30.8 on identical fresh Ubuntu VMs. Coolify idled at ~520 MiB and 3 GB of disk, Dokploy at ~831 MiB and 5 GB. Here's what each installs, plus security and which to pick.
DevOps & Self-Hosting
PostgreSQL 18 generates UUIDv7 natively. I loaded 10M rows keyed by bigint, uuidv4 and uuidv7: load time, WAL, index size and insert throughput, plus Prisma and Drizzle setup and the index trap in time-range queries.
DevOps & Self-Hosting
A complete production Next.js Dockerfile for Next.js 16 and Node 24: multi-stage build, output: 'standalone', non-root user, sharp, env vars and health checks, with measured image sizes.
DevOps & Self-Hosting
Coolify vs Vercel for Next.js, compared on real pricing, Next.js feature support, previews, databases, long-running work and lock-in, plus a safe migration checklist.
DevOps & Self-Hosting
A step-by-step guide to self-host Next.js with Coolify on your own VPS: install Coolify, choose Nixpacks or a standalone Dockerfile, wire up PostgreSQL and env vars, and harden it for production.
