LevelrailNovember 6, 2026 · 5 min read
Docker Orchestration Without Kubernetes or SSH Scripts
DockerDevOps
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RSSEvery essay and deep dive I have published, aggregated here and from the Levelrail blog and Dev.to.
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Dev.toNovember 2, 2026 · 3 min readI ran Minecraft, WordPress and MySQL on a free 6 GB ARM VM and watched the RAM | Levelrail
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LevelrailOctober 30, 2026 · 6 min readSelf-Hosted Vercel and Heroku Alternatives, Compared
Self-hostingComparison
On this siteOctober 24, 2026 · 7 min readZero Downtime on One Server: What Matters
DevOpsSelf-Hosted
LevelrailOctober 24, 2026 · 4 min readOur Health Check Failed and the Deploy Went Live Anyway
DevOpsDocker
LevelrailOctober 24, 2026 · 8 min readInstall a Self-Hosted PaaS on Your Own Server in Five Minutes
Self-hostingDocker
LevelrailOctober 24, 2026 · 7 min readRestart a Docker Container Without Downtime
DockerDeployments
LevelrailOctober 24, 2026 · 13 min readDocker Container Restarting in a Loop: 5 Causes, Fixed
DockerTroubleshooting
LevelrailOctober 24, 2026 · 5 min readRoll Back a Failed Docker Deploy Without Downtime
DockerDeployments
Dev.toOctober 20, 2026 · 9 min readSelf-Hosted Vercel Alternative: Git Push to HTTPS on a VPS | Levelrail
selfhosteddevops
Dev.toOctober 20, 2026 · 7 min readTop 5 Self-Hosted Deployment Platforms in 2026: Coolify, Dokploy, CapRover, Dokku and Levelrail
selfhosteddocker
Dev.toOctober 10, 2026 · 5 min readLeave Vercel for Your Own Server: A Self-Hosted Vercel Alternative Runbook
nextjsvercel
Dev.toOctober 10, 2026 · 6 min readLet an AI Agent Deploy Safely: A Scoped MCP Server With an Audit Trail
aimcp
Dev.toOctober 10, 2026 · 6 min readSwitch from Coolify, Dokploy or CapRover Without Touching the Old Server
selfhosteddocker
Dev.toOctober 5, 2026 · 7 min readCoolify, Dokploy and CapRover Alternative: Levelrail Compared Honestly (2026)
selfhosteddocker
Dev.toOctober 4, 2026 · 6 min readInstall a Self-Hosted PaaS on a $5 VPS in Five Minutes (Levelrail)
selfhosteddocker
Dev.toSeptember 24, 2026 · 5 min readFree AWS, Azure and GCP architecture icons as SVG
Part 2 of 2awsazure- On this siteSeptember 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Introducing Levelrail
DevOpsSelf-Hosted 
Dev.toApril 18, 2026 · 7 min readI replaced Auth0 with an open source library in 30 minutes. Here is what broke.
authenticationopensource- On this siteNovember 3, 2025 · 3 min read
Microservices Migration: What Nobody Tells You
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