Tutorials

Step-by-step guides for your cloud servers: installs, configuration and best practices.

How to mount a Backup Box as an extra disk with SSHFS

Attach Backup Box storage straight onto your server, as if it were a local disk, over SSHFS.

rsync copies only what changed, fast and safely. The essential tool for syncing and backups.

Understand chmod, chown and the Linux permission model, to avoid access errors and security risks.

MinIO gives you S3-compatible storage on your own server, ideal for apps that expect an S3 API.

Monitoring only helps if it warns you in time. Here is how to get alerts by email or Telegram.

Logs grow forever and fill the disk. logrotate archives and deletes old ones automatically.

See slow queries, connections and database usage, to keep it fast.

Do not let your site go down or your SSL certificate expire without knowing. Here is how to track them automatically.

A full disk stops services and corrupts data. Here is how to track space and get alerts in time.

Logs tell you what is happening on your server. Here is where to find them and how to search them efficiently.

Find out immediately when your site goes down, with Uptime Kuma and email or Telegram notifications.

The standard combo for professional monitoring: Prometheus collects metrics, Grafana displays them in dashboards.