7 powerful VPS troubleshooting tips to minimize downtime
Your server is down. However you do learn about downtime, and no matter what you’re doing with your virtual private server (VPS), your priority is clear: Get it back online. …
Joel Hans
Joel is equal parts tech and literature geek, and loves helping people do more in the cloud. When not working at a blank page or a Linux terminal, he's mountain biking in the mountains surrounding Tucson, Arizona.
Tutorial: Installing Alphabet’s Outline VPN on your VPS
Setting up a virtual private network (VPN) on a personal server has never been particularly easy. Enter… Google?
Get more from your VPS with these 5 self-hosted apps
The beauty of VPS hosting is that you can almost always eke out a little bit more power—and value—from what you already have.
Let’s look at the weird and surprising Stack Overflow Survey
Every year, StackOverflow surveys its users in search of dying languages and future trends. And, every year, tons of developers find themselves annoyed, surprised, and horrified by the goldmine of …
Improving our dashboard experience
The “When are you going to update your dashboard?” question has been bugging us for a while. No more.
Tutorial: Let’s make our development lives better with dotfiles
Imagine downloading a repository with git and running a single command to put all your preferences back in place after booting up a new server. Enter our dotfiles tutorial.
Tutorial: Ditch SSH, get started with Mosh
SSH is super powerful, but it’s definitely not perfect. Why not give Mosh, which promises better reliability and speed, a try?
It’s 2018. Why are we still developing on desktops?
With so much power in the cloud, why do we rely so heavily on traditionally unreliable (and expensive) hardware?