Push a staging branch, get its own address, lock it with one password. Production stays public, search engines stay out.
Password-protect a staging site on Light Cloud: a branch gets its own environment and URL, a password in the Security tab locks it at the edge, and production stays public. No code, no .htaccess, no auth middleware.
Read post
Install the Light Cloud MCP server in Claude Code with one command, ask it to deploy a folder, and get a live URL. A real session with screenshots: deploy, redeploy, password.
Julia
Three minutes, no laptop, and a long drive still in my legs. I pitched the platform at KitchenPitch, FreshMango's pitch day, and left out the best thing we are building. Here is why that was the right call, what the mentors fixed afterwards, and the part where I did not recognize the accelerator CEO.
Julia
GAIA-X, EuroStack, and now a 180-million-euro sovereign tender with Google inside the tent. Europe keeps trying to build a thing when what it lacks is a property, and the property is portability.
Deploy a FastAPI app to Light Cloud without a Dockerfile: requirements.txt and main.py are enough, uvicorn is started on the right port, and the Swagger docs at /docs are live in about 90 seconds.
Julia
Kubernetes hit 82% production adoption and got crowned the operating system for AI. Total victory. And the losers are application developers, who were never supposed to touch a kernel, and now write YAML against one for a living.
Deploy an Express 5 API on Light Cloud without a Dockerfile: listen on PORT, read settings from environment variables, write JSON logs with a severity, and find every request in the Logs tab.
Julia
Deploy a SvelteKit site with adapter-static to Light Cloud: fix the Encountered dynamic routes error with export const prerender = true, and get real HTML pages served from the edge, deep links included.
Julia
The UK spent three years investigating cloud competition, recommended designating AWS and Microsoft as strategic-market-status suppliers, and then accepted voluntary commitments instead. A field guide to telling real remedies from theater.
Deploy an Angular 22 app made with the Angular CLI to Light Cloud: the dist/<project>/browser output folder is detected automatically, Angular Router deep links work, and every git push redeploys.
Julia
Deploy a Vue 3 app made with create-vue, including Vue Router history mode and TypeScript, to Light Cloud: detected automatically and live in about 30 seconds.
Julia
Create a React app with Vite, push it to GitHub and deploy it on Light Cloud's free plan: detected automatically, built in 15 seconds, updated on every git push.
Julia
Terraform went BSL in 2023, the community forked it, and IBM bought the company anyway. The lesson isn't that HashiCorp was villainous. It's that a license is a contract one side can rewrite, and your infrastructure planning has to price that.