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Why Dokploy is amazing (a love letter, with footnotes)
I moved this site from 'it works on my machine' to 'git push deploys it' in an afternoon, on my own server, without writing a single line of Traefik config by hand. Here is what Dokploy gets right, and the footnotes I wish I had read first.
First login on a fresh VPS: the hardening I actually did
A Debian 13 box, a sudo user, a password, and one evening to make it safe enough to host a deployment platform. Here is the exact order I did things in, and the two traps that cost me a reboot.