This is a collection of frequently asked questions about the makandra hosting environment and our operations services.

Our opscomplete gives you everything necessary to run a modern web infrastructure in a professional manner.

Physical security We're hosting in the datacenter "Munich East" of our datacenter provider noris. The datacenter holds multiple certifications...

New Deployments Looking for a checklist for new deployments? You will find it here: Adding new deployments. Servers

In most cases your application needs configuration data like database endpoints or API keys to work. This section will help...

When a new application deployment is to be created we always need the same set of information. If possible, please...

If you want to use containers for your deployment, we support this via a docker-compose.yml file. For this case we...

Managed Hosting includes a wide variety of monitoring methods to ensure stable operation of your servers and applications. Corresponding checks...

We offer shared services for ruby on rails applications on our server infrastructure. With that you get a default setup...

A load balancer has to know where and when it can traffic forward to. A malfunctioning application server or one...

At makandra we can provide different solutions for HTTPS/SSL. Let's Encrypt (Recommended solution) Let's Encrypt is a certificate...

Backups are stored in a physically separated environment from their origin to protect against physical dangers such as a fire...

On every application server a local MTA is running and listening on localhost port 25. You can use it to...

There are different locations where log data is written to. Here is an overview of the most common places.

On high workloads or increasing traffic to your website/application there might be a need to make infrastructural changes to improve...

If your database exceeds the size for a shared database or you have other requirements you can also use a...