What tools do you use to manage your Grav backend beyond the CMS?

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Grav is awesome as a flat-file CMS, but I’m curious — what tools are you all pairing with Grav behind the scenes?

Would love to hear about your go-to utilities or stacks for things like:

  • Server automation or provisioning
  • Scheduled backups / deployment pipelines
  • Scripted updates for plugins/themes
  • User or access control workflows
  • Performance monitoring (especially on VPS or shared hosts)

Bonus points if it’s Linux-friendly or plays well with Git.

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Thanks for opening this topic.

i know this is not you are looking for but im going to tell what i use :slight_smile:

archlinux, gnome, tilix, fish, lunarvim, ranger, firefox, cromite, filezilla and many plugins those use.

im sorry to say i dont use anything that is in your list, and also wish to learn more about them thanks to this topic.

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Great question, Grav’s simplicity really shines when paired with the right tools.
Here’s what I typically use:

Rsync or Deployer for pushing changes across environments

Monit for lightweight uptime and service checks

Netdata for server resource and traffic monitoring

Fail2ban to block suspicious login attempts

GitHub Actions + rsync for automatic theme/plugin deployment

Puppet, Attune and Script Runner when I’m setting up new environments or tweaking NGINX configs

Anyone using cron or something else for scheduled plugin checks?

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Hello, @palegrant I use Virtualmin on an AlmaLinux 9 server. Virtualmin is of great value and simplifies the Server Admin job. Even when I make a new website with Grav, I work it completely on the server, I edit the files using the great File Manager and Code Editor that Virtualmin has. And I download backups of the whole website root directory after completing every important step in the course of the installation. I know that this practice is not recommended, but for me, it has worked wonderfully and fast, over the years, with no issues at all. Virtualmin also allows for timely automated websites account backups. And a very convenient and practical server console to use the terminal, if needed.

For server Monitoring, Virtualmin dashboard statistics are based on metrics gathered and displayed by the underlying Webmin system. These statistics include CPU load, CPU utilization, email statistics, and system resource usage, all presented in graphical form. Users can customize the displayed metrics by selecting different checkboxes within the System Statistics page. All main services, like Apache, Bind, MariaDB, Email Servers, FTP, PHP, etc, can be restarted or stopped with a click from this same Virtualmin dashboard.
Regards.