Learn Cloud & Hosting

Discover how to work with cloud storage and use hosting services for your web applications. These cloud and hosting tutorials will get you up and running in no time.

All Cloud & Hosting tutorials:

  1. Improving SEO Using Nginx

    Improving SEO Using Nginx

    Tutorial Beginner

    SEO is about making your websites rank higher in organic results. This tutorial will guide you through some basic steps to improve performance of your...

  2. How to Use New Relic Browser to Improve Your Web App's User Experience

    How to Use New Relic Browser to Improve Your Web App's User Experience

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In modern web applications, a big part of what the user sees, from page loading to actions triggered in JavaScript, happens inside a web browser rather than...

  3. New Course: Easy Node.js Development Environment With Vagrant

    New Course: Easy Node.js Development Environment With Vagrant

    Tutorial Beginner

    When developing a Node.js app, you will probably need one or more of these dependencies: a database server, a key-value store, a background worker or a...

  4. Working With Nginx

    Working With Nginx

    Tutorial Intermediate

    This article will cover some basic techniques for using Nginx, such as managing configuration files, debug mode, CLI, and auto-indexing.

  5. Introduction to OwnCloud Server: File Sharing Under Your Control

    Introduction to OwnCloud Server: File Sharing Under Your Control

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Take control of your data by hosting your own file sharing cloud. Free, open source OwnCloud offers web and smartphone support.

  6. Get Started With Monitoring Your Web Application Using New Relic Alerts

    Get Started With Monitoring Your Web Application Using New Relic Alerts

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to create software alerts for your web-based application using New Relic's new Alerts system.

  7. Using the Digital Ocean API to Manage Your DNS

    Using the Digital Ocean API to Manage Your DNS

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Digital Ocean now offers fast reliable DNS hosting. Here's how to program it with their API using our downloadable console application.

  8. Launching WordPress at Digital Ocean With ServerPilot

    Launching WordPress at Digital Ocean With ServerPilot

    Tutorial Beginner

    Setting up WordPress is easy with ServerPilot, a modern hosting control panel built especially for Digital Ocean. I'll walk you through launching your next...

  9. Using the Digital Ocean API to Manage Cloud Instances

    Using the Digital Ocean API to Manage Cloud Instances

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Automate common system administration and testing tasks with the Digital Ocean API. Create, clone and back up your servers at the push of a button.

  10. Building an App Image to Resell at Digital Ocean

    Building an App Image to Resell at Digital Ocean

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Deliver ready-made solutions to clients using Digital Ocean snapshots. It's an efficient way to quickly install WordPress and other applications.

  11. Hosting Your Website After Death

    Hosting Your Website After Death

    Tutorial Beginner

    Want to host your WordPress site for a hundred years? It's an impossibly difficult undertaking. Let's explore the gaps technologists have left themselves in...

  12. CloudBerry Explorer: Fast, Effective File Manager for Amazon S3 and the Cloud

    CloudBerry Explorer: Fast, Effective File Manager for Amazon S3 and the Cloud

    Tutorial Beginner

    CloudBerry Explorer allows end-users to access their Amazon cloud storage for data transfer and management in a fast, efficient manner. It's File Manager for...