Tips & Tricks - DeployHQ Blog

Our products pack a punch when it comes to features and it would be easy to miss some of them. Here we post helpful tips & tricks about how to use our products & services.

Zero-downtime deployments with a cache directory

DeployHQ offers two zero-downtime deployment strategies: copying the previous release or using a clean cache directory. Learn how each works, when to use them, and best practices for seamless deployments.

Custom Amazon S3 request headers

Configure custom HTTP request headers when deploying to Amazon S3 buckets with DeployHQ, including Cache-Control, Content-Disposition, and server-side encryption metadata.

Whitelisting excluded files

Use whitelisting rules to create exceptions within your DeployHQ exclusion rules. Prefix any rule with ! to keep specific files or directories deployed even when their parent is excluded.

The DeployHQ Build Pipeline

In a lot of modern web applications, a number of assets or dependencies are generated separately from your normal development cycle. For example, you might be compiling some JavaScript, fetching...

Deploying to multiple servers at the same time

You may be deploying your code to more than one server, which can be particularly inconvenient when it comes to making sure all of your servers are running the same...

Migrate your GitHub Service Integrations to Webhooks

As you may have seen, GitHub are currently discontinuing their old services integrations and replacing them with webhooks. In the past, users would add one of these to enable automatic...