Tag: nginx

A real postmortem: how a forgotten survey-tool container, an uncapped Docker log driver, and rootless networking combined to kill prod for a Monday morning.

Add load balancing and failover to your Docker setup using Swarm, nginx, HAProxy, and Keepalived, high availability without Kubernetes.

Your reverse proxy only has the leaf cert, not the intermediate. Here's why that kills half your connections.

Certbot isn't the only ACME client. Explore Caddy, acme.sh, lego, and Step CA, with practical examples for wildcard certs and DNS-01 challenges.

Set up Nginx Proxy Manager in Docker, get SSL certs, proxy hosts, access lists, and TCP streams, without reading a 40-page nginx manual.

Apache still runs half the internet by default, not by choice. Here's why Nginx and Caddy have lapped it, and when to finally make the switch.

Nginx config demystified: server blocks, location matching, proxy_pass gotchas, rate limiting, and Docker Compose setup, with working examples.

Your upload works fine locally. It times out through NGINX. The client closes the connection. Here's why.

Your backend can't see the client IP because the reverse proxy silently dropped it. Here's why and how to fix it right.

Traefik vs Nginx Proxy Manager compared for self-hosters. Docker auto-discovery, SSL certs, GUI vs labels, performance, and when to pick each reverse proxy.

Automate a full WordPress stack deployment, Docker, nginx, and MySQL, using Ansible playbooks instead of clicking through wizards.