CChalominhostingguru.hashnode.dev·May 13 · 12 min readI migrated 12 client projects off Heroku. Here's the playbook (and the 7 things that bit me every single time).Disclosure: I'm a senior backend tech lead and I run HostingGuru. Six of these 12 migrations landed on HostingGuru. The other six went to Render, Railway, Fly.io, or back to a VPS. The playbook below 00
CChalominhostingguru.hashnode.dev·May 13 · 11 min readHow I built a Discord 'ship-tracker' bot in a weekend (and the 3-process architecture that keeps it alive 24/7)Disclosure: I'm a senior backend tech lead and I run HostingGuru. This bot runs on HostingGuru's Pro tier — but the architecture (web service + worker + scheduled job) works on any platform that suppo00
CChalominhostingguru.hashnode.dev·May 13 · 9 min readTelegram alerts for any production app — a 5-minute setup (no SaaS, no signup, just curl)Disclosure: I'm a senior backend tech lead and I run HostingGuru, where Telegram alerts ship as a built-in feature. This tutorial works on any platform — it's the manual version of what HostingGuru do00
CChalominhostingguru.hashnode.dev·May 13 · 11 min readYour AI app is silently burning $2,000/month and you don't know it. Here are the 5 patterns that bite founders.Disclosure: I'm a senior backend tech lead and I run HostingGuru, where built-in AI monitoring is the feature I'm proudest of. This article will mention HostingGuru once at the end, but the patterns a00
CChalominhostingguru.hashnode.dev·May 13 · 10 min readI built my MVP with Claude Code. Now I need to deploy it. Here's what nobody tells you.Disclosure up front: I'm a senior backend tech lead by trade and I run HostingGuru, one of the platforms mentioned at the end. I tried to make this useful even if you pick something else. In 2026, a 01S
