Hands-on reviews of hosting, VPS and cloud platforms, tested by a working DevOps engineer.
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Practical guides to hosting, VPS and cloud tools — focused on the trade-offs that actually matter when you run real websites and workloads.
What to back up, how often, where the copies go, and how to prove a restore works before you need it. Sized for a single site, not an…
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The order of operations for a migration that doesn’t break permalinks, serialized data or email. Includes the checks most guides skip.
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Managed cloud platforms cost more than a VPS and ask more of you. Four situations where that trade is correct, and the ones where…
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Page cache, object cache and CDN solve different problems. What each removes from the request path, how to tell which one you’re…
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The monthly number on the pricing page is a starting bid. Renewal pricing, backup add-ons, visitor caps and migration fees — a checklist…
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A practical way to pick VPS specs without overpaying: how to work out RAM from your actual stack, why vCPU counts mislead, and the…
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Pick a lane. Each section covers sizing, pricing and the failure modes.
Trade-offs, not recommendationsWe explain who a product suits and where it breaks, not which one to buy.
Hands-on where it mattersResearch overviews are labelled. Hands-on tests say so explicitly.
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