Product
Why I Stopped Paying for Vercel on My Side Projects
Vercel is great, but the bill grows with each project. How I run my side projects on one VPS I own with ox, what it costs, and what I gave up.
Blog.
Notes on deploying to your own server, from the people building ox.
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Product
Self-Hosted Deploy Tools Felt Too Busy, So I Built ox
I could pay a lot to keep deploys simple, or pay less and fight a busy screen. I wanted neither, so I built a calm deploy tool for my own server.
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Guides
Deploy FastAPI to Your Own VPS with One Config File
Put a FastAPI app with uvicorn, Postgres and Alembic on your own Ubuntu server, with HTTPS and no Docker, using one small ox.toml file you can copy.
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Guides
Deploy Django Without Docker: Gunicorn, systemd and Caddy
Deploy Django without Docker on your Ubuntu VPS: gunicorn under systemd, Caddy for HTTPS and PostgreSQL. Every step by hand, then the same deploy with ox.
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Product
A Heroku alternative on your own VPS, without Docker
A Heroku alternative for 2026: move your app to a VPS you own. What maps to what, real costs, five migration steps, and what ox does not do.
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Engineering
Zero-downtime deploys without Docker: systemd and Caddy
Zero-downtime deployment on a VPS without Docker: blue-green with two systemd units, a health check and a Caddy upstream file. A copyable script inside.
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Opinion
Agentic Loops and Swarms Are the New Moat for Dev Tools
What agentic loops are and why they beat prompting: a swarm of research, review and production agents that removed dead code with zero broken features.
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Engineering
Case Study: Raising a Vue App's Lighthouse Score to 93
A Vue and Vite case study: how route splitting, lazy components, deferred analytics and leaner fonts raised a Lighthouse performance score from 60 to 93.
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Guides
Deploy Django and Vue.js on a VPS: Nginx, Gunicorn, Celery
Deploy a Django and Vue.js app on a VPS: Nginx serves the Vue build, Gunicorn runs Django, Celery and Redis under systemd, with HTTPS from Certbot.
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Fail2Ban for Django: Stop Brute-Force Logins on Your VPS
Use Fail2Ban to stop brute-force logins on Django: ban IPs from Nginx logs, catch failed Django admin logins with a signal, and test every filter safely.
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Guides
Deploy Django with Uvicorn and Nginx: A Beginner's Guide
A beginner's guide to deploying Django with Uvicorn and Nginx on an Ubuntu VPS: SSH keys, Supervisor, a firewall and free HTTPS with Certbot, step by step.