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Monitoring your VPS with Uptime Kuma
Deploy Uptime Kuma on your VPS to monitor your sites and services self-hosted, with alerts and a public status page.
VPS Monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus
Deploy Prometheus 3.x, Grafana 13.x, Node Exporter and Alertmanager on your VPS with Docker Compose. Dashboards, alerts and hardening.
Monitor your VPS in real time with Netdata
Install Netdata on your VPS for per-second real-time monitoring: thousands of metrics, zero configuration, alerts included.
Securing your VPS with CrowdSec
Deploy CrowdSec on your VPS to block attacks thanks to behavioral detection and a shared community blocklist.
Fail2Ban Enhanced on VPS: blocking repeated attacks
Link Fail2Ban Enhanced to the ServOrbit catalog: SSH/Nginx banning, readable logs and official documentation.
Setting up a WireGuard VPN on your VPS
Deploy a WireGuard VPN on your Cloud VPS: encrypted tunnel, Docker configuration and clients in a few minutes. Step-by-step guide.
Centralizing authentication with Authentik on VPS
Centralize the authentication of all your apps with self-hosted Authentik on a VPS: SSO, MFA and forward auth in Docker Compose.
Deploy Keycloak for SSO on Your VPS
Deploy Keycloak on your VPS for enterprise-grade SSO: OIDC, SAML, realms and federation. A complete Docker guide and comparison.
Automate Your VPS Backups with Restic
Automate your VPS backups with Restic: encrypted snapshots, deduplication and shipping to S3 or any object backend.
Encrypted VPS Backups with BorgBackup
Back up your VPS with BorgBackup: powerful deduplication, authenticated encryption and compression. A complete guide and Restic comparison.
Configure Your VPS Firewall with UFW
Configure your VPS firewall with UFW step by step: rules, ports, SSH rate limiting and best practices to reduce the attack surface.
Free SSL Certificates with Let's Encrypt on a VPS
Complete Let's Encrypt guide for VPS: certbot nginx, DNS-01 wildcard, systemd renewal, TLS hardening, rate-limit troubleshooting and certbot vs acme.sh vs Caddy.