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Sizing, operations and the parts of hosting that are usually explained badly. Written by the people who run the platform, mostly because we got tired of answering the same question in tickets.
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Security14 min read
What we do about attacks, and what no host can do
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Databases14 min read
Connection pools: how to size one and why more is slower
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Web hosting14 min read
Deploy Laravel to production: env, caches, queues and cron
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App hosting12 min read
Deploy Django to production: settings, static files, gunicorn
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Sizing16 min read
Game server requirements: RAM, CPU and disk by game
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App hosting13 min read
Background jobs on a small server, with or without Redis
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App hosting14 min read
Deploy FastAPI or Flask: uvicorn, gunicorn and workers
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App hosting13 min read
Graceful shutdown and health checks that mean something
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