Deploy your own open-source Web GIS server instance on a VPS in 15 minutes with Docker

Eduard Kazakov
If your team works with geospatial data, sooner or later you need a place where maps, layers, users, and edits live together. There are many capable SaaS platforms and proprietary solutions you can deploy on your own infrastructure, but there is another path: self-hosting an open-source Web GIS server. In this tutorial, we will deploy NextGIS Web on a low-cost VPS using Docker, and then configure a reverse proxy with HTTPS. By the end, you will have your own Web GIS server up and running on the