Kamatera
Practical writing on cloud providers, infrastructure, deployment and cost, from the team behind the BuyCloudExpress catalogue.
When fixed instance sizes waste money
Standard cloud instances come in fixed CPU-to-memory ratios. Real workloads rarely match them, and the mismatch is paid for in resources you never use.
Choosing a data centre location that matches your users
Region choice sets a latency floor you cannot optimise past, and a legal context you cannot ignore. Both are decided at provisioning time and expensive to…
Running containers on a single server
Containers are useful long before you need an orchestrator. On one server they solve dependency conflicts, make deployments repeatable and make the machine disposable.
Infrastructure as code: a starting point that does not overwhelm
You do not need to define your entire estate in code to get most of the benefit. Start with the parts that would be painful to…
Migrating from shared hosting to a cloud server
The move is mostly straightforward. The parts that go wrong are predictable, and nearly all of them are avoided by ordering the steps correctly.