Portainer is a web dashboard for the Docker engine already running on your VPS. Its documentation describes the goal as hiding the complexity of managing containers behind an easy-to-use UI, so everyday container work doesn't depend on remembering CLI flags. That is a real convenience once a server runs more than a …

Running your own VPN server used to mean wrestling with OpenVPN's certificate authority workflow or IPsec's famously fiddly configuration stanzas. WireGuard was built to sidestep both problems: it's a VPN protocol implemented as a small codebase that the Linux kernel has shipped as a built-in module since late 2019, …