Why DDoS protection is in the price
Most hosts sell mitigation as a $5-15 upsell. Here is the arithmetic on why we do not, and what it means for what you actually pay.
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Notes from the rack.
Tutorials we needed and could not find, announcements that affect your bill, and engineering write-ups on what we actually run. Two posts a month.
When a VPS stops being the right answer
The honest signals that a workload has outgrown virtualisation — steal time, noisy-neighbour IO, and the point where a dedicated machine is simply cheaper.
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A complete walkthrough: repository initialisation, a systemd timer, retention policy, and — the part everyone skips — actually testing the restore.
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