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Some handy commands for quickly checking whats eating up storage space on linux vps(in my case it was poorly configured github action runners and chonky npm and nextjs cache) Get a High-Level Overview with df The df command (Disk Free) gives you a su...
If you're running a server with limited RAM — like a 2GB DigitalOcean droplet — you might run into memory issues when building large applications (hello oom-kill). A quick and effective solution is to increase your swap space. This guide walks you th...
I recently integrated M-Pesa's Customer-to-Business (C2B) API to enable a business to receive real-time alerts when customers make payments via Paybill. The primary goal was to automate service delivery upon payment. While Safaricom's Daraja document...
So you are at the point in your project where you have successfully deployed your backend app to a server like EC2 and have nginx as a reverse proxy or you have configured your nginx to serve the static frontend files so that going to an ip like http...
You have a bash script on your linux installation that you would like to run periodically, it could be anything, for instance you have a script that takes periodic snapshots of the database and performs a backup, or a script that pulls in changes fro...
When looking to set up a react native/expo development environment, most of the tutorials assume you are using Mac or Windows. The information that focuses on setting up an environment for ubuntu is scant and even when you find one, there are missing...
So you have a virtual private server that you have purchased from one of the providers like Digital ocean. You currently log into the server using ssh where you have to enter the password every time. It works ok but you tire of entering the password ...
So the goal of this tutorial is to describe how to get a react app from your laptop/pc onto the internet by putting it in an Amazon aws ec2 container and using nginx to serve the app. The tutorial assumes you already have an aws account and can log i...
I found myself in a situation where I wanted to transfer some large video files from one laptop to the other and didn't have a portable hard disk or flash storage around. I postponed the task until I realized after using live server to view a website...