What Is - DeployHQ Blog

A series of what is pages in the DeployHQ Blog.

What's the easiest way to deploy on a VPS?

Struggling with complex VPS deployments? Discover how DeployHQ makes it easy with automated workflows, zero-downtime updates, and seamless rollbacks. Deploy smarter!

What is Vibe Coding?

Vibe coding lets you build software by describing what you want in plain English while AI writes the code. Coined by Andrej Karpathy, it is reshaping how developers prototype — but shipping vibe-coded projects to production requires guardrails. Here is what works, what breaks, and how to deploy safely.

Fail2Ban: Comprehensive Protection for Your Servers

Install and configure Fail2Ban to block brute-force attacks on SSH, Nginx, and Apache. Includes real log examples, custom jail configuration, email alerts, fail2ban-regex testing, Docker integration, and an honest comparison with CrowdSec and Cloudflare WAF.

Understanding Vendor Lock-In: What Every Developer Needs to Know

Understand vendor lock-in in web development and cloud services: what it is, how it develops through proprietary tech and deep integrations, and its pros and cons. Learn strategies to minimize lock-in risks like standardization, portability, and multi-cloud approaches. Use our practical evaluation checklist to assess your situation.

Understanding Podman: Docker's Open Source Alternative

Podman is a daemonless, rootless container engine from Red Hat — now the default on enterprise Linux. Learn how it compares to Docker in performance and security, when to choose it, and how to migrate your workflows with real CI/CD and deployment examples.

Conventional Commits Guide: Rules, Tools and CI/CD Enforcement

Learn how to implement conventional commits with commitlint and Husky, automate changelogs with semantic-release, and enforce structured commit messages in your CI/CD pipeline. Includes real configuration examples and team adoption tips.