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Self-host n8n on Ubuntu 24.04 with Docker Compose, PostgreSQL, Nginx, HTTPS, localhost-only exposure, backups, security auditing, and updates.
Self-host Supabase on Ubuntu 24.04 with Docker Compose on a Raff VM. Configure current Supabase keys, HTTPS, health checks, backups, and safe storage guidance.
Back up PostgreSQL to Raff Object Storage with Restic. Create encrypted dumps, schedule retention, check repository health, and test a full restore.
Deploy a multi-container application with Docker Compose on a Raff Ubuntu 24.04 VM. This tutorial covers a Node.js app with PostgreSQL and Redis using Compose profiles, health checks, and named volumes.
Install PostgreSQL 18 on Ubuntu 24.04 from the official PGDG repository. Create a database and role, verify SCRAM authentication, and run a CRUD test.
PostgreSQL performance tuning for SaaS teams: query plans, indexes, vacuum, statistics, locks, connection pressure, and capacity decisions.
Learn PostgreSQL high availability across standbys, read replicas, failover, replication lag, application reconnects, and managed vs self-hosted HA.
Understand PostgreSQL connection pooling, PgBouncer modes, pool sizing, max_connections, and how SaaS teams prevent connection storms in production.
Understand PostgreSQL for SaaS apps across sizing, connections, pooling, backups, high availability, and managed vs self-hosted production ownership.
Compare PostgreSQL replication, backups, point-in-time recovery, and snapshots by the failure modes each protects and the recovery gaps each leaves.
Learn VPS database hosting for small teams: when to self-host PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, or MongoDB and when a managed database is the better operating model.
Understand a database migration checklist for managed databases covering target validation, backups, synchronization, cutover, rollback, and recovery.
Plan zero-downtime database migrations with expand-contract, staged backfills, managed database cutovers, rollback, and engine-specific PostgreSQL or MySQL controls.
Compare managed database vs self-hosted across cost, control, backups, recovery, scaling, security, and operations to choose the right model.
Compare MySQL vs PostgreSQL vs MongoDB by data model, transactions, performance, scaling, operations, and hosting to choose the right database.
Learn MongoDB vs PostgreSQL differences in data modeling, JSON, transactions, scaling, and operations so your team can choose the right database.
Learn PostgreSQL vs MySQL differences in SQL, JSON, performance, operations, and hosting so your team can choose the database that fits its workload.
Learn Postgres hosting for SaaS: compare managed and self-hosted PostgreSQL, size connections and storage, plan recovery, and test Raff’s free database tier.
Learn database storage on block volumes, including disk layout, IOPS and latency monitoring, capacity planning, backups, and recovery decisions.
Compare SQL vs NoSQL for SaaS apps across relational, document, and key-value models, transactions, queries, scaling, recovery, and ownership.
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