Claude API tutorial: your first app on a VPS
Get a Claude API key, secure it on Ubuntu 24.04, ship a Python log-explainer with streaming, typed error handling, and real cost control.
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What to self-host in 2026: 25 apps
A curated list of 25 self-hosted apps worth running in 2026, grouped by job, with what each one replaces, honest RAM and disk needs, and the gotcha to know.
Run Gemini CLI on a headless VPS
Run Google's Gemini CLI on a headless VPS: a current Node, a no-sudo global install, browserless API-key auth, and tmux so long tasks survive SSH drops.
Traefik + Docker Compose: 5 apps, auto TLS
Run five apps behind one IP with Traefik v3 on Docker Compose: routing by Host rule, automatic Let's Encrypt TLS, and the acme.json trap that blocks startup.
Nested virtualization on a VPS: KVM & Proxmox
Check whether your VPS exposes VT-x or AMD-V, enable nested KVM, and run Proxmox or Windows in a guest hypervisor. Includes the errors you will actually hit.
Run Claude Code on a remote VPS with tmux
Run Claude Code on an always-on Linux VPS inside tmux so agent sessions survive a dropped SSH connection. Install, harden, and the failure modes to expect.