Welcome to Deploy Academy — you just made the best investment in your engineering career.

This course takes you from Linux terminal basics all the way to zero-downtime production deployments of Next.js applications on servers you own and control.

What You'll Build

• A hardened Linux server with SSH key auth, UFW firewall, and fail2ban

• Nginx configured as a reverse proxy with SSL/TLS via Let's Encrypt

• A production Next.js app running under systemd with automatic restarts

• A zero-downtime deployment pipeline

• Structured logging, health checks, and monitoring

• Horizontal scaling with Nginx load balancing

How to Get the Most Out of This Course

1. Follow along on a real server. Spin up a cheap VPS and do every exercise hands-on.

2. Complete lessons in order. Each chapter builds on the last.

3. Use the Student Lounge chat. Ask questions, share your progress, help others.

Let's deploy.

Most developers deploy to Vercel or Netlify and never think about what is happening underneath. That is fine until you need custom server config, long-running processes, WebSockets, or you just want to stop paying $20/month per project for managed hosting.

Deploy Academy teaches you to run production Next.js applications on Linux servers you actually own.

The course covers 6 chapters, 18 hands-on lessons:

• Linux foundations (filesystem, users, permissions, packages)

• Server provisioning and security (VPS setup, SSH hardening, UFW)

• Nginx reverse proxy with SSL/TLS

• Next.js SSR deep dive (rendering strategies, API routes, caching)

• Process management and zero-downtime deployments

• Monitoring, logging, and horizontal scaling

If you are a self-taught developer or junior engineer who wants to understand the full stack — from the kernel to the browser — this is for you.

1-day free trial. $267/month. Cancel anytime.