InfoDizest

You just bought a fresh Linux VPS, and the IP is sitting in your inbox. Before you start pulling Docker images or cloning your Node.js repos, you need to lock it down. The moment a new server goes live on the public internet, automated botnets start hammering port 22 looking for weak root passwords. If […]

Every time you deploy a new web project, the first instinct is to slap a free CDN in front of it. In 2026, the landscape of “free” content delivery has shifted. While Cloudflare has maintained its legendary unmetered bandwidth model, AWS recently overhauled its CDN pricing by introducing new “Flat-Rate” plans to sit alongside its […]

Deploying a Node.js app used to mean fighting with reverse proxies, configuring PM2, and managing SSL certificates by hand. Then Heroku came along and made deployment as simple as a git push. For years, it was the default choice for developers who wanted to focus on code instead of infrastructure. Now, Render is aggressively marketing […]

Five years ago, the default developer advice for launching an MVP was simple: “just use MongoDB.” It was schema-less, forgiving, and easy to connect to a Node.js backend. But the landscape has shifted. Supabase has aggressively captured the indie hacker and startup market by offering an open-source Firebase alternative powered by PostgreSQL. The decision is […]

Choosing a budget web host is usually an exercise in compromising. You want to deploy a quick PHP application, a backend API, or set up a professional WordPress portfolio, but you don’t want the complexity of managing AWS or the high monthly costs of premium managed hosting. If you’re looking for the cheapest reliable way […]

When you’re spinning up a weekend project, deploying a personal portfolio, or testing a new API, you don’t need hyperscaler complexity. You want to provision a server quickly, connect via SSH, and get to coding without burning a hole in your wallet. For years, DigitalOcean has been the default recommendation for developer side-projects. But Vultr […]

If you spend more than an hour a day in the terminal, you know the pain of scrolling through a 10,000-line Docker build log trying to find a single stack trace. For decades, Linux developers have accepted that terminals are essentially infinite, dumb text buffers. You write a command, it spits out text, and if […]

The promise of AI-first code editors is simple: write code faster, debug instantly, and eliminate boilerplate. But for Node.js developers juggling asynchronous operations, database connections, and API routing, does an AI-native editor like Cursor actually move the needle, or is it just a heavily marketed wrapper around VS Code? Let’s break down how Cursor handles […]