Deploy your first app

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Each topic starts with a guide to the whole subject, and goes on with an article on each of its parts, in the order to read them.

Deploying

How to deploy an app you built with AI to your own server

From a Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit, v0 or Claude Code project to a live URL on a server you control: code, build, backend, secrets, HTTPS and what breaks on the way.

10 min read

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    Deploy a Lovable app to your own server (Vite or TanStack Start)

    How to deploy a Lovable app to a server you control: tell the Vite and TanStack Start stacks apart, sync it to GitHub, build it in Docker, serve it over HTTPS, and keep or move the Supabase backend.

    9 min read

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    Deploy a Replit app to a VPS

    How to move a Replit app to a VPS you control: push it to GitHub, turn the .replit build and run commands into a Dockerfile, re-create the secrets, and move the production database with pg_dump.

    8 min read

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    Deploy a Bolt.new app to your own server

    How to deploy a Bolt.new app outside Bolt Cloud: get the code, find out which stack Bolt chose, build it in Docker, serve it over HTTPS, and claim the database into Supabase.

    8 min read

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    Deploy a v0 app without Vercel

    How to deploy a v0 app on a server you control instead of Vercel: export it to GitHub, recover the environment variables, build a standalone Next.js image and serve it over HTTPS.

    8 min read

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    Claude Code built your app. Here is how to put it online

    Can Claude Code deploy apps? It writes the code, the Dockerfile and the workflow, and can run deploy commands you approve, but it is not a host. The path from its code to a live URL on your own server.

    7 min read

Deploying

How to deploy a web app to a VPS: the complete guide

From an empty server to a production app: server size, Docker, a reverse proxy with HTTPS, DNS, CI/CD, secrets, backups, zero-downtime updates, previews, logs and hardening.

12 min read

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    Deploy Next.js to a VPS with Docker and HTTPS

    A tested setup for Next.js 16 on your own server: standalone output, a small multi-stage Docker image, PostgreSQL and Caddy with automatic HTTPS, and the build-time traps that break apps after the first deploy.

    8 min read

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    Deploy a Docker Compose app to Hetzner with GitHub Actions

    A Hetzner Cloud server set up by a tested cloud-init file, behind Hetzner's firewall, updated by a GitHub Actions workflow that builds your image, pushes it to GHCR and deploys it over SSH.

    10 min read

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    Deploy a Docker app to a DigitalOcean Droplet

    Create a Droplet, lock it down with a Cloud Firewall, install Docker from Docker's own repository, and run your app with Compose and automatic HTTPS. Every command tested; prices checked on 11 November 2026.

    8 min read

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    Zero-downtime deployments with Docker Compose

    Two app replicas behind Caddy, health checks, retries and a 25-line script: a zero-downtime rollout with plain Docker Compose, tested under constant load, including a broken release and a rollback.

    9 min read

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    A preview of every pull request, on your own server

    What per-pull-request preview environments need on your own server, a tested do-it-yourself setup with Docker Compose, Caddy and GitHub Actions, and what OpsCrew's previews add.

    10 min read

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    Hetzner vs DigitalOcean for a small production app

    Plans, prices, traffic, regions, backups, snapshots, firewalls and IPv4 costs from both providers' own pages on 11 November 2026, compared for a small app with a database.

    7 min read

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