Gitea 28: news and upgrade precautions
Audit, bots, deploy tokens, and Actions in Gitea 28: what changed and the precautions with retention, egress, and WebSocket before upgrading.
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Caddy on Linux: web server with automatic HTTPS
Install Caddy on Ubuntu and Debian via the official repository and put sites and applications behind automatic HTTPS, with reverse proxy, load balancing, PHP, Docker, and plugins.
FileBrowser Quantum: the successor to File Browser, which has been archived
File Browser was archived on September 1, 2026, with no future security fixes. Understand why the project ended and how to install FileBrowser Quantum, the fork that replaces it, with Docker, systemd, and Nginx.
Filestash on Ubuntu and Debian: binary installation and comparison with File Browser
Compile Filestash from source, install the binary on Debian 13 or Ubuntu 24.04 with systemd and Nginx, and compare it with File Browser and FileBrowser Quantum to choose the right web file manager.
Uptime Kuma on Linux: self-hosted monitoring with Docker and Nginx
Install Uptime Kuma with Docker Compose, publish it with Nginx and configure alerts, status page and backup with security.
Getting Started with Ansible
Install Ansible on Ubuntu, set up inventory and an SSH key, run ad-hoc commands, and write your first playbook with a variable, template, and handler, simulating before applying. Everything was tested with ansible-core 2.21.
Nginx and multiple PHP versions on Debian and Ubuntu
Debian 12 ships PHP 8.2. Ubuntu 24.04 ships 8.3. Debian 13, 8.4. Ubuntu 26.04, 8.5. A real host needs all three at once: the old WordPress site, the new Laravel application, and the cron CLI. The distribution repository does not allow it. Ondřej Surý’s does. nginx comes from nginx.org — stable, pinned, without mixing … Read more
Installing HHVM on Ubuntu
In 2017, HHVM was the performance shortcut: Facebook’s JIT, WordPress and Laravel running faster than Ubuntu’s PHP 5.6/7.0. Nine years later, Zend Engine won — PHP 7, then 8, a proper OPcache, … Read more
Installing Gogs on Ubuntu and Debian
Gogs is a self-hosted Git server written in Go: a single binary, no Ruby, no Node, no queue, no Redis. You drop the file on the server, point it at a database and you have a web interface similar to the … Read more