Wade Thomas

🚀 Just published my first video on Back-End Web Development!

In this video I break down:

What a VPS is and why it matters

The real cost of Vercel and Netlify at scale

Why Coolify is a game changer for VPS management

My back-end stack: 🗄️ Directus — Headless CMS 🐘 PostgreSQL —...

Cut Your SaaS Bill with a Self-Hosted Setup

A lot of small businesses are paying $300-500/month across multiple SaaS tools — a CMS here, an auth provider there, a managed database on top — without realising there's a leaner alternative.

Here's what's possible with a self-hosted...

Need a back end that's flexible, affordable and easy to use, try Directus. It's free, it can be self-hosted and supports many different types of data structures and projects. Directus is stable, can use any SQL DB, my favorite being PostgreSQL.

Supported by a great team of...

What database powers some of the world's largest applications? PostgreSQL. In this video I break down what PostgreSQL is, why it is one of the most trusted databases in the world, and why it is the database I chose for my back-end stack.

We cover:

What a relational database...