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Short guides for the parts of deployment that trip students up, written by the person who runs the platform. Every guide ends with something you can actually deploy.
2026-08-01
A MERN project is four moving parts, but only two need hosting: the Node.js server and the database. React is built and served by that same server. So a MERN deploy is really a Node.js deploy plus a MongoDB connection string.
2026-07-20
Python web projects are mostly Flask or FastAPI, and both go online the same way: install the dependencies and run the app. The database is the part students usually get stuck on, which is why DormHost puts one on the same machine.
2026-07-05
A final year project deserves a live demo, not a laptop passed around the room. A URL is also something concrete to put in the report and on the resume. Here is how to get one without a credit card or a server of your own.
2026-08-31
A Discord bot has to be online whenever someone in the server pings it, which rules out the usual student-hosting trick of sleeping when nobody is visiting: nobody visits a bot over HTTP. It needs a plan that never sleeps.
2026-08-31
Flask ships with its own development server, and the one thing to unlearn before a real deploy is using it: flask run is not meant to serve real traffic, even the traffic of one examiner opening the link during a viva.
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