Moving Off AWS: A Cost and Migration Guide for European Teams
AWS bills usually spike from egress fees and managed-service markup (RDS, managed Kubernetes) rather than raw compute cost — and reserved instances or savings plans create a false…
Decision Guide
Affordable VPS Hosting for a Small or New Business Website
The best web hosting for a small business isn't always the cheapest sticker price — it's whichever option matches the resources a site actually needs without a surprise…
Is VPS Hosting Right for Your Growing WordPress Site?
VPS hosting is worth the move once a WordPress site consistently maxes out shared hosting's CPU or memory limits, slows down at the same time every day regardless…
Managed vs Unmanaged VPS for Production: How Experienced Sysadmins Actually Decide
Experienced sysadmins rarely frame this as a technical question. The real question is: who handles the 3am outage? Managed VPS means the provider does. Unmanaged VPS means your…
Contabo EU Data Centers: Locations, Latency, and GDPR for European Workloads
Where your server is located determines the latency your users experience. For EU-based applications and GDPR-regulated data, it also determines which legal jurisdiction your data sits in. This…
Migrating from DigitalOcean: Best VPS Alternatives in 2026
If you are moving off DigitalOcean, two European providers stand out as the most-recommended alternatives in 2026: Hetzner and Contabo. Both are German-owned, GDPR-compliant, and offer significantly more…
Best VPS for Docker and Kubernetes on a Budget in 2026
If you are running multiple Docker containers on shared hosting and hitting memory errors, the problem is not your configuration — it is the infrastructure. Shared hosting cannot…
VPS, VDS, and Object Storage Under One Account: The European IaaS Guide for SaaS Startups (2026)
Most SaaS startups eventually need three infrastructure layers: shared compute for early-stage workloads (Cloud VPS), dedicated compute when traffic demands consistent performance (Cloud VDS), and scalable object storage…
The GPU Guide to Running Private AI Agents Locally in 2026
The most important component for running AI agents locally isn't the CPU — it's GPU VRAM. The entire language model must fit into video memory to run at…
VPS Sizing Guide for Self-Hosted AI Agents in 2026
The answer depends on one question before any spec number: is your agent calling an external API (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) or running the model locally? When the agent…
Cost-efficient Way to Self-Host Nextcloud for Your Team in 2026
Nextcloud itself is free, open-source software — you only pay for the server it runs on. For a team of 10-15, two paths keep costs under €5-10 a…
Moving Off AWS: A CTO’s Guide to European Cloud Providers in 2026
The right European alternative to AWS depends on one factor above all: how much of your stack relies on AWS-specific managed services. If you're running Kubernetes, Postgres, object…
How Much RAM and CPU Does a VPS Need for Node.js + PostgreSQL?
For a typical production Node.js app with PostgreSQL on one VPS: 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM / NVMe SSD. That's the baseline. The right size below or…
Is a VDS Worth It for a Busy WordPress or Magento Store?
For most stores past roughly 50,000-100,000 monthly visitors, yes. A VDS(Virtual Dedicated Server) gives you dedicated CPU and RAM instead of competing with other tenants for the same…
Block Storage vs Object Storage vs File Storage: A Buyer’s Guide
You'll learn everything you need to know about object storage, block storage, and file storage with this explainer.