VPS and servers
Practical writing on cloud providers, infrastructure, deployment and cost, from the team behind the BuyCloudExpress catalogue.
VPS or managed hosting: an honest comparison
The difference is not power or price. It is which problems become yours, and how many hours a month you are willing to spend on them.
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…
Choosing a Linux distribution for a cloud server
The distribution decides how often you are interrupted, how long the machine remains supported, and how easily you can find an answer at two in the…
Hardening a fresh cloud server in thirty minutes
A new public IP address starts receiving automated attacks within minutes. These steps, in this order, remove almost all of that risk before anything is exposed.
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.
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.