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dedicated servers — written for people who actually run the machines.
Latest articles
How to Benchmark VDS CPU Performance vs a Shared VPS
The two tests that actually prove dedicated CPU: monitor CPU steal time (%st in top or vmstat) over several hours, and run sysbench repeatedly rather than once. A…
Best VDS with High RAM for In-Memory Databases and Caching
For typical Redis or Memcached caching layers, providers like Hetzner, DigitalOcean, and Contabo offer memory-optimized VDS instances with up to around 100GB of RAM at strong price-per-GB value.…
Best VDS for Databases Needing Stable, Dedicated CPU Performance
For database workloads, the single most important server characteristic is dedicated CPU — not the advertised core count, but whether those cores are reserved exclusively for your VM.…
Immich vs PhotoPrism vs Ente: Which Should You Self-Host in 2026?
Immich, PhotoPrism, and Ente are the three leading self-hosted photo apps in 2026. This comparison covers features, RAM requirements, AI search, mobile backup, and encryption – so you…
Best VDS Providers in 2026
No single VDS provider wins on every dimension. Liquid Web and UpCloud lead on contractual uptime commitments, Kamatera and Vultr cover the widest EU-plus-US footprint for low latency,…
VDS vs Dedicated Server: When to Upgrade for a Growing Application
A VDS gives you dedicated CPU cores and RAM inside a virtualized environment, provisioned in minutes; a dedicated server gives you an entire physical machine, with more raw…
How to Self-Host Dify on a VPS
Dify is an open-source platform for building LLM applications — a visual workflow editor, RAG pipeline, and agent builder in one interface. It self-hosts via Docker Compose on…
Best Self-Hosted AI Orchestration Platforms for a VPS
The strongest self-hosted AI orchestration platforms for a VPS in 2026 are n8n for visual workflow automation, Dify for building RAG and chat applications, and LangGraph or CrewAI…