2026-09-22
Migrating a database to a cloud provider rarely boils down to dumping and loading. If the database is large and downtime must be measured in minutes, you need a service that first copies the data, then catches up the …
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Server metrics and logs don’t show everything. If an error occurred in the user’s browser or in a rare code path, the server may not log anything and the user may simply close the page. For such cases there …
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Lab and field data Lighthouse and WebPageTest measure site speed in controlled conditions: one device, one network, one run. This is convenient during development, but real visitors open the site from slow phones, over …
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CI/CD is the practice where every code change is automatically built, tested and delivered to the server. Instead of the manual sequence “copy files, restart the service and check that nothing broke”, this …
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When a single n8n process can no longer handle the number of executions, it is scaled: workflow executions are offloaded to separate worker processes, webhook reception to separate processes, and user code to isolated …
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Connection pooler for PostgreSQL — a program between the application and the database that keeps a small number of real connections to the server and hands them out to clients in turn. The best known are PgBouncer and …
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MinIO — is an open-source object storage compatible with the Amazon S3 API. It was installed on private servers to store files, backups and application data the same way as cloud S3, but on-premises. However, in 2026 the …
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phpMyAdmin works only with MySQL and MariaDB. If you have PostgreSQL, phpMyAdmin won’t connect to it — for PostgreSQL people use pgAdmin or Adminer. Adminer also works for MySQL, so it often replaces phpMyAdmin …
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LAMP and LEMP are two classic stacks for PHP sites: Linux, a web server, a database, and PHP. They differ by the web server: LAMP uses Apache, LEMP uses Nginx. In practice the more important difference is how the web …
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Where to store a company’s files, databases, and backups — on your own equipment or in a provider’s cloud — is not a technical question, but an economic and legal one. The answer determines expenses for several years …
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