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Deploy
Getting applications safely into production: deployment, CI/CD, domains, DNS and databases.
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I built an app with Claude Code. Where should I host it?
Diagnose what your AI-built app needs from a host before comparing platforms: the repository diagnostic, the five deployment shapes, and the checks that separate a platform that holds up from one that does not.
23 July 2026Article
Laravel queue workers in production: the setup that does not quit
29 September 2026Article
Zero-downtime deployment, explained for normal sites
23 September 2026Article
Deploy WordPress from GitHub: version control for a CMS
WordPress has two content models, code and content, and Git deploys respect the split. The repository carries the theme, plugins and build config; the database keeps the posts; a deploy only ever moves the first. How git push deploys work on managed panels, what belongs in the repo, and what never does.
17 September 2026
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Next.js hosting: where an app should live and how it deploys
A Next.js app deploys as static files, one supervised Node process, or a container, and the shape decides the host. What each shape demands, when the Vercel default is genuinely right, and what the alternatives have to prove before you switch.
11 August 2026Article
Node.js hosting, plainly
A Node app needs five things from a host: a supervised process, builds from the repository, environment variables without a shell, room for workers, and logs that survive restarts. How the four hosting options deliver them, and what each cost shape does to a quiet month's bill.
6 August 2026
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Production monitoring for small apps: the minimum that lets you sleep
A small production app needs four instruments, installed in order: external uptime checks, error tracking, logs that survive restarts, and alert routing that respects your sleep. What each rung catches, what it costs to set up, and why dashboards come last.
4 August 2026Article
Environment variables and secrets in production, without the ceremony
Environment variables hold the config that changes between environments, and production means they live in platform settings instead of .env files. How the local habit fails, which keys count as burned, and how to prove the plumbing before real secrets arrive.
29 July 2026
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How to put an AI-built app into production
An AI-built app that works on your machine is not deployed. The checklist that carries it from repository to a production deployment that survives its first real user, in order, with the parts people skip.
21 July 2026Guide
Deploy Laravel on Cloudways
Deploying a production Laravel application on Cloudways: the composer flow on the server, environment variables in the panel, storage permissions, queue workers and the scheduler running supervised, and a first-deploy checklist that catches what Laravel setups usually get wrong.
2 April 2026