VPS articles
Running a virtual private server: what managing one actually costs in time, where the money goes, and when it beats shared hosting.
We rent our hardware from certified operators and say so. What owning a building would and would not do for your server, and where the money goes instead.
7 min read
What a five-person team's Forgejo instance needs on a small KVM VPS: quarterly upgrades, what a real backup contains, and the runner trade-off.
8 min read
Running Nextcloud on a KVM VPS with dedicated cores: sizing the server, installing it with Nextcloud All-in-One, and what people get wrong afterwards.
7 min read
A $12 droplet is cheap until you count the hours. What running your own server actually costs, and the three signs it's time to stop.
3 min read
Where the line between the two falls, what each one covers, and the four questions that settle it before you spend anything.
3 min read