Deploy & Infrastructure

Server reboots should be routine. Instead, you’re watching your Node.js app fail to come back up, pm2 showing an empty process list, and users hitting 502s while you scramble to SSH in and manually restart everything. The frustrating part: you ran pm2 startup and pm2 save exactly as the docs say. So why does rebooting … Read more

Your cron job runs at the wrong time. You set 0 9 expecting 9 AM, it fires at midnight. Or you changed the server timezone with timedatectl, verified date shows the right local time, and your cron job still* runs on UTC. Here’s what’s actually wrong: cron reads the system timezone once at daemon startup … Read more