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Ben Lobaugh

How to get started with your own uptime monitor with Docker, in minutes

I received a stressed text message, “Tomorrow will be our biggest sales day EVER! I sure hope the web servers are ready for it!”

3 min readDec 10, 2022

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How to get started with your own uptime monitor with Docker, in minutes

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4 Quick Tips to be a Better Remote Manager

Recent events have forced a lot of businesses and teams to work from home, many for the very first time. If you are leading one of these…

4 min readNov 4, 2022

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4 Quick Tips to be a Better Remote Manager

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How to Clean Up GitLab Artifacts

If you are running into GitLab storage quota limits there is a high likelihood that the usage is coming from job artifacts. These artifacts…

2 min readOct 27, 2022

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How to build a VPN client as a Docker container

There is not much to be found online about running a VPN inside Docker. Indeed, I do not believe many out there have thought about it…

3 min readSep 9, 2022

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How to build a VPN client as a Docker container

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How I set up a new Mac in minutes with a simple Homebrew script

Setting up a new machine used to be a huge chore that I did not look forward to, however in the Apple world there is a great tool called…

1 min readMay 31, 2022

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Highly Performant PHP Sessions with Redis

The web is stateless, but often the apps we build are not. To facilitate state in web apps, PHP provides a session handling mechanism…

3 min readMar 29, 2021

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How to Detect Mobile Devices Accessing a Shopify Store

Serving different content to different devices is standard practice on the internet. Every platform does it a bit differently and in this…

2 min readJan 25, 2021

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How to Make a Domain Proxy for Digital Ocean Spaces

Digital Ocean has been my go to solution for hosting for many years. When the Spaces service, an S3 compatible object store, was…

3 min readJan 16, 2021

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How to Make a Domain Proxy for Digital Ocean Spaces

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How to Secure Docker Containers with a Read-Only Filesystem

A compromised website sucks. A compromised website that an attacker can insert code into to manipulate your visitors is even worse…

5 min readJan 10, 2021

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Build Highly Performant WordPress Sites with Minio and WP Offload Media

WordPress is the leading content management system and it is often thought that WordPress cannot scale. That assertion is a bit misleading…

4 min readJan 4, 2021

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Ben Lobaugh

Ben Lobaugh

Director of Engineering at Mindsize. 20+ year technology veteran. Providing leadership insights, mentorship, and coaching to new and existing leaders.

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