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Life & fun · February 5, 2016

My Trick for Securing Websites Without a DB

Discover our strategy for easily securing applications without the overhead of using a datastore, setting up users, and facilitating authentication.

My Trick for Securing Websites Without a DB launched on February 5, 2016 with 13 votes, #1,972 of 4,386 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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My Trick for Securing Websites Without a DB provides a strategy for securing applications using Nginx and Linux without setting up a traditional database, user system, or authentication framework. It is for developers building minimum viable products who want to implement security quickly without the overhead of managing user credentials and datastores. The approach offers an alternative to both complex database-backed authentication and insecure static credentials.

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Security in applications is usually a must have requirement—even when we’re considering a minimum viable product. Datastore backed authentication (think: every user with a username and password) takes time to setup and deploy. And that chews into the time you should be spending building your app and its features. There are many alternative solutions to this problem; however, not many of them are very secure. I’m looking at you static username and password! That’s why I’m going to provide a quick overview of a strategy for securing an app in a simplistic fashion without all of the overhead of using a datastore, setting up users, and facilitating their authentication. On the surface,…from arcweb.co

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