Chalom Ellezam

Lead Software Craftsman in Paris 🇫🇷 — building HostingGuru, a PaaS where the free tier never sleeps. EU + US regions, AI monitoring with Telegram alerts.

Joined on Mar 29, 2026 https://hostingguru.io

Chalom Ellezam

Jun 15

Stop sending every alert to Slack. The 4-channel routing matrix I built after 18 months of being paged at the wrong time.

#devops #observability #productivity #webdev

9 min read

Chalom Ellezam

Jun 15

Your indie SaaS has no staging environment. Here is the 30-minute setup (and the 4 production bugs it catches before your users do).

#devops #indiehackers #beginners #webdev

9 min read

Chalom Ellezam

Jun 15

Your Postgres will die at 50 concurrent users, not 50,000. Here is the connection pooling guide nobody handed you.

#postgres #webdev #devops #beginners

9 min read

Chalom Ellezam

Jun 15

Your .env file is probably already in your Git history. The 15-minute audit (and the 5 habits that stop new leaks for good).

#devops #security #beginners #webdev

9 min read

Chalom Ellezam

May 20

I deployed 12 vibe-coded apps to production. The same 6 things broke every single time.

#webdev #beginners #ai #devops

9 min read

Chalom Ellezam

May 17

Your crontab is silently failing. The 5 silent killers of VPS-based cron jobs (and the modern setup that fixes them in an afternoon).

#cron #devops #indiehackers #productivity

10 min read

Chalom Ellezam

May 15

Your Stripe webhook is going to silently drop a paid customer. Here are the 4 patterns that catch it before they chargeback.

#stripe #webdev #devops #indiehackers

9 min read

Chalom Ellezam

May 14

Your indie SaaS has zero working Postgres backups. Here's the 20-minute fix (and the drill you need to run before you sleep tonight).

#postgres #devops #indiehackers #beginners

9 min read

Chalom Ellezam

May 12

The Claude Code production checklist: 15 things that aren't obvious until they bite you

#claudecode #ai #beginners #webdev

8 min read

Chalom Ellezam

May 11

I migrated 12 client projects off Heroku. Here's the playbook (and the 7 things that bit me every single time).

#heroku #devops #webdev #tutorial

9 min read

Chalom Ellezam

May 8

How I built a Discord 'ship-tracker' bot in a weekend (and the 3-process architecture that keeps it alive 24/7)

#discord #javascript #devops #webdev

9 min read

Chalom Ellezam

May 4

Telegram alerts for any production app — a 5-minute setup (no SaaS, no signup, just curl)

#monitoring #devops #webdev #tutorial

7 min read

Chalom Ellezam

Apr 29

Your AI app is silently burning $2,000/month and you don't know it. Here are the 5 patterns that bite founders.

#ai #devops #webdev #observability

8 min read

Chalom Ellezam

Apr 27

I built my MVP with Claude Code. Now I need to deploy it. Here's what nobody tells you.

#ai #beginners #webdev #claudecode

8 min read

Chalom Ellezam

Apr 24

Heroku just went into "sustaining engineering mode." Here are 5 alternatives whose free tier actually doesn't sleep.

#news #cloud #sideprojects #webdev

5 min read

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Stop sending every alert to Slack. The 4-channel routing matrix I built after 18 months of being paged at the wrong time.

Your indie SaaS has no staging environment. Here is the 30-minute setup (and the 4 production bugs it catches before your users do).

Your Postgres will die at 50 concurrent users, not 50,000. Here is the connection pooling guide nobody handed you.

Your .env file is probably already in your Git history. The 15-minute audit (and the 5 habits that stop new leaks for good).

I deployed 12 vibe-coded apps to production. The same 6 things broke every single time.

Your crontab is silently failing. The 5 silent killers of VPS-based cron jobs (and the modern setup that fixes them in an afternoon).

Your Stripe webhook is going to silently drop a paid customer. Here are the 4 patterns that catch it before they chargeback.

Your indie SaaS has zero working Postgres backups. Here's the 20-minute fix (and the drill you need to run before you sleep tonight).

The Claude Code production checklist: 15 things that aren't obvious until they bite you

I migrated 12 client projects off Heroku. Here's the playbook (and the 7 things that bit me every single time).

How I built a Discord 'ship-tracker' bot in a weekend (and the 3-process architecture that keeps it alive 24/7)

Telegram alerts for any production app — a 5-minute setup (no SaaS, no signup, just curl)

Your AI app is silently burning $2,000/month and you don't know it. Here are the 5 patterns that bite founders.

I built my MVP with Claude Code. Now I need to deploy it. Here's what nobody tells you.

Heroku just went into "sustaining engineering mode." Here are 5 alternatives whose free tier actually doesn't sleep.