100 VPS Hosting (Hetzner, etc.) resources for developers

Install the hcloud-cli to manage server lifecycles, floating IPs, and private networks directly from your terminal or CI/CD pipelines.

Use the official Hetzner Cloud provider for Terraform to define your infrastructure as code, ensuring reproducible server environments and network topologies.

Write YAML-based cloud-config files to automate user creation, package installation, and SSH key injection during the first boot of a VPS.

Mount external storage via Samba, NFS, or WebDAV for large media files or database backups, keeping your primary VPS disk lean.

An S3-compatible storage solution for European-based data residency, ideal for storing application assets and cold backups at low cost.

Use community-vetted playbooks like 'dev-sec.ssh-hardening' to apply industry-standard security configurations across multiple VPS instances.

Configure private network interfaces to allow internal communication between app servers and databases without exposing traffic to the public internet.

Build pre-configured Ubuntu images with your stack pre-installed to reduce the spin-up time for new nodes in a cluster.

Implement a managed load balancer to distribute traffic across several VPS instances in different data centers for high availability.

For developers using bare metal (Dedicated Servers), use the Robot API to manage IP assignments, resets, and rescue system boots.

Deploy Caddy as a reverse proxy to handle Let's Encrypt certificates automatically with zero-config HTTPS for all your subdomains.

Restrict SSH and database ports to a Tailscale mesh network, effectively removing your management ports from the public internet.

Implement a strict 'deny all' incoming policy, specifically allowing only 80, 443, and your custom SSH port.

Install CrowdSec to detect and block malicious IPs based on behavior, sharing threat intelligence with other users globally.

Configure Fail2Ban to monitor auth logs and temporarily ban IP addresses that show signs of brute-force login attempts.

A Docker-based GUI for managing Nginx reverse proxy settings, ideal for developers who prefer a visual interface for SSL and routing.

Use Traefik to automatically discover Docker containers and route traffic based on labels, perfect for dynamic VPS environments.

Manually configure WireGuard tunnels to connect VPS instances across different providers (e.g., Hetzner to AWS) securely.

Disable password authentication in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to eliminate the risk of password-based credential stuffing.

Expose web services on your VPS to the internet without opening any inbound firewall ports by using an outbound tunnel to Cloudflare.

Deploy Dockerized applications to any VPS using SSH. Kamal handles zero-downtime rollouts and load balancer configuration without a heavy PaaS.

An open-source alternative to Heroku/Vercel that runs on your VPS. It manages deployments, databases, and backups via a web UI.

A Docker-powered PaaS that lets you push code via Git (git push dokku master) to build and deploy applications automatically.

Install a GitHub runner on your VPS to execute CI/CD jobs locally, avoiding the cost of GitHub-hosted runner minutes.

Install Netdata for per-second monitoring of CPU, RAM, and disk I/O with zero configuration and a built-in dashboard.

Set up a centralized monitoring server to scrape metrics from multiple VPS nodes and visualize them in custom Grafana dashboards.

A container that monitors your running Docker containers and automatically restarts them if a new image is pushed to the registry.

Self-host a monitoring tool to track the uptime of your services and receive notifications via Telegram, Discord, or Slack.

Use Borg for deduplicating, compressed, and encrypted backups of your application data to an offsite Storage Box.

Ensure /etc/logrotate.conf is configured for all application logs to prevent your VPS disk from filling up with old text files.