Linode
Practical writing on cloud providers, infrastructure, deployment and cost, from the team behind the BuyCloudExpress catalogue.
Linode after Akamai: what changed and what did not
Akamai's acquisition folded Linode into a much larger edge network. The core VPS product stayed recognisable; the surrounding platform did not.
Sizing a server for a small production workload
Most small production servers are two sizes larger than they need to be, chosen from a guess at peak traffic that never arrived. Here is a…
What full root access actually gets you
Root access is the headline feature of every VPS listing. Here is what it genuinely enables, what it does not, and the responsibilities that arrive with…
SSH keys, properly
Most people generate one key, copy it everywhere, and never think about it again. A slightly better practice costs ten minutes and removes several genuinely bad…
CI/CD onto a cloud server without a platform
A reliable deployment pipeline onto a plain server needs four things. None of them require a deployment platform, and all of them are worth having before…