Snapshots and backups solve different problems

Why having one does not protect you from the failure the other is for — and how to set up both without paying twice.

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A practical guide to hardening a new Linux server

The dozen changes that matter most in the first hour after you get root, explained in the order you should make them.

Five signs your website has outgrown shared hosting

Slow admin panels, mystery traffic caps and timeouts under load usually appear well before anything actually goes down.

How DDoS protection actually works

A plain explanation of the filtering layer in front of every instance, and why most attacks are absorbed before they reach your server.

Migrating 200 websites to NVMe without downtime

How we moved an entire hosting fleet off spinning disks over one weekend, what broke, and what we would do differently next time.

NVMe, SSD and HDD: what the difference means in practice

Benchmarks are easy to quote and hard to interpret. Here is what each storage type changes for real workloads, and when the cheaper option is genuinely fine.

How to choose the right VPS size for your application

Estimate the RAM, CPU and storage your workload actually needs — before you pay for capacity you will never use.

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