VPS & Self-Hosting
RackPilot publishes hands-on VPS, self-hosting, and server-administration guides for solo founders and small teams running their own SaaS infrastructure instead of renting everything from a platform. Written from real production experience, not theory.
Read replicas are one of the most reached-for scaling tools and one of the most commonly reached for too early. Here's the actual test.
You don't need Jenkins or a platform team to stop deploying by hand. A GitHub Actions workflow and one SSH step covers most solo setups.
Password-only access to your most sensitive server logins is one leaked credential away from a bad week. Here's how to add real 2FA.
A status page turns 'is it just me?' support tickets into a five-second self-serve check. Here's how to run one yourself.
Switching providers doesn't have to mean an outage window. Here's the sequence that keeps a migration invisible to users.
Most VPS outages for small products trace back to one of a handful of avoidable mistakes. Here's the list, and the fix for each.
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