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The DeployHQ Blog
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Smoother Deployments with Canary Releases: A Code-Centric Approach
Canary releases let you roll out changes to a small percentage of users before a full deployment — reducing the blast radius of bugs. This guide covers canary release patterns as defined by Martin Fowler, progressive rollout strategies with feature flags in PHP, and traffic splitting with Nginx and Apache.
Case Study: Inspector.dev’s Journey to Seamless Deployments and Zero Downtime with DeployHQ
Learn how APM platform Inspector.dev uses DeployHQ for zero-downtime deployments to AWS, automating builds & streamlining workflows. Reduced errors & saved time. Case study.
5 Powerful Ways to Deploy PHP Applications with DeployHQ
Master PHP application deployment with DeployHQ. Learn 5 powerful ways to automate Git-driven deployments, manage dependencies, use SSH commands, achieve zero-downtime releases, and handle multiple environments.
How to Install Gitea on Amazon Lightsail: A Comprehensive Guide
Learn how to easily install Gitea, a lightweight Git repository, on Amazon Lightsail. Step-by-step guide with Nginx setup, SSL, and performance tips. Self-host your Git projects today!
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!
Keeping Development, Staging, and Production in Sync: A Complete Guide
Why deployment environments drift apart and how to fix it. Covers Infrastructure as Code, Docker, configuration management, database migration strategies, and pipeline design for keeping dev, staging, and production in sync.
Unlocking Seamless Development and Collaboration: A Deep Dive into OpenAPI
Unlock seamless development with our deep dive into OpenAPI. Learn why exposing a specification is a game-changer for collaboration and automation, explore different creation methods (manual, automated, and AI-powered), and clarify the relationship between OpenAPI and Swagger.
WordPress Development in 2026: From Full Site Editing to Flawless Deployments
WordPress in 2026: Full Site Editing maturity, native AVIF and SQLite support, Interactivity API v2, Font Library for local fonts, and automated deployment workflows with DeployHQ.
Case Study: A Smooth Switch from DeployBot to DeployHQ
Case Study: Learn how Leeds-based agency Ponderosa successfully migrated from DeployBot to DeployHQ, achieving faster, more reliable deployments and an improved UI with a refreshingly straightforward transition.
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.
Case Study: Cutting Deployment Costs and Complexity with DeployHQ
Discover how a company cut .NET deployment costs from $23k to $3k annually by replacing Octopus Cloud with DeployHQ for 100+ .NET Core projects on Windows Server, leveraging OpenSSH and PowerShell.
