https://blog.nuvai.cloud/tags/hybrid/ Recent content in Hybrid on Luis Sousa Blog Hugo en Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://blog.nuvai.cloud/posts/wordpress-incident-triage-apm-not-logs/ Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://blog.nuvai.cloud/posts/wordpress-incident-triage-apm-not-logs/ <p>We run <a href="https://joyofexploringtheworld.com/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joyofexploringtheworld.com</a> on a <a href="https://blog.nuvai.cloud/posts/hybrid-wordpress-oracle-elitedesk-ipsec/" >hybrid stack</a> — Oracle edge for HTTP, a home EliteDesk for MariaDB and wp-cron, Cloudflare APO, imgproxy, and Datadog EU for observability. After a busy week of deploys and tuning, we ran a structured 24-hour error review.</p> <p>The log index looked almost clean. <strong>That was the wrong place to start.</strong></p> <h2 id="what-we-expected-vs-what-we-found"> What we expected vs what we found <a class="heading-link" href="#what-we-expected-vs-what-we-found"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Source</th> <th>24h signal</th> <th>Useful for triage?</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Log index (<code>status:error</code>)</td> <td>1 Traefik line</td> <td>No — nearly empty</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Error Tracking</td> <td>imgproxy source errors, PHP fatals, bot noise</td> <td><strong>Yes</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td>APM spans</td> <td>Slow admin paths, high PHP compilation time</td> <td><strong>Yes</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Monitors</td> <td>TLS cert false alert, imgproxy 404s, 502/503 No Data</td> <td>Mixed</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Our workflow is now: <strong>Error Tracking → APM → monitors → host verification → logs last.</strong></p> https://blog.nuvai.cloud/posts/hybrid-wordpress-oracle-elitedesk-ipsec/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://blog.nuvai.cloud/posts/hybrid-wordpress-oracle-elitedesk-ipsec/ <p>Running everything on one free-tier cloud VM works until it does not. Ours did not: on <a href="https://joyofexploringtheworld.com/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joyofexploringtheworld.com</a>, block editor REST storms, bulk SEO automation, MariaDB, ~100 GB of media, imgproxy, and backups all competed for four vCPUs and 23 GB RAM on a single Oracle instance.</p> <p>The cheapest upgrade path was not another €5 VPS. It was hardware we already owned — <strong>HP EliteDesk mini PCs with 60 GB RAM</strong> — connected to Oracle over <strong>Always Free IPSec</strong> via a home gateway that supports site-to-site VPN.</p>