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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 practical speeds, and VRAM is the limiting factor that determines which models you can use. A 16-24 GB VRAM GPU covers the majority of serious local agent […]
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Contabo’s US West Region has moved to a new Tier III certified data center in Tukwila, Washington, near Seattle. The migration is complete, IPs are unchanged, and most customers don’t need to do anything. Here’s what changed and why.
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Contabo’s new Customer Control Panel now supports multi-user accounts and role-based access. One email can hold a main account and multiple sub-accounts, with a switcher so you never need to sign out. Extended user management replaces the old Contact system with more features, and the Add-On Manager is coming soon.
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The Contabo VPS lineup now comes in three product lines – Core, Performance, and Max Performance – each built for a different kind of workload. From budget-friendly WordPress hosting to latest-gen AMD EPYC compute and dedicated-resource VDS plans, find out which line fits your project.
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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 uses external APIs, the VPS handles orchestration only — a lightweight process that needs surprisingly little hardware. A Contabo Cloud VPS 4 (4 vCPU / 8 GB
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A clear default stack has emerged among people self-hosting in 2026: Nextcloud for files, Immich for photos, Vaultwarden for passwords, n8n for automation, Jellyfin for media, Uptime Kuma for monitoring, Gitea for Git hosting, Paperless-ngx for document management, and Home Assistant for home automation. Beyond personal use, a growing number of people are also self-hosting
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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 month. The first is a self-hosted VPS: Contabo’s Cloud VPS 4 (4 vCPU / 8 GB RAM, €4.50/month) with a free 1-click Nextcloud installation, costs the same
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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 storage, and Terraform — the portable core of most SaaS architectures — Hetzner, Scaleway, and OVHcloud all offer credible paths. Hetzner gives you the lowest compute cost;
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The best alternative to AWS or Google Cloud depends on one question: does your team want to manage servers, or pay someone else to? For teams comfortable with Linux and Docker, VPS providers — Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Contabo — offer flat-rate pricing, 5-10x the compute for the same money, and zero egress billing surprises. For
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There are two very different answers to this question depending on what you’re actually building. The hyperscalers — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud — have the largest raw footprint with dozens of regions each, but come with correspondingly complex pricing and egress costs. Mid-tier VPS and cloud providers — Vultr, OVHcloud, Linode/Akamai, DigitalOcean, Contabo — cover
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Google Photos and iCloud put your photo library on someone else’s infrastructure, on someone else’s terms. These seven self-hosted photo management apps give you full control over your library, your data, and your storage bill. All seven deploy via Docker and run on a VPS from a few euros a month, with no subscription and no lock-in.
Deploy Strix, the open-source AI penetration testing tool, on your own VPS. Step-by-step Docker setup, target configuration, and safe responsible-use guidance.
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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 above it depends on where your project actually sits — a hobby project and a database serving real production traffic have very different floors, and the table
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What Is a Performance VPS? A Performance VPS is a virtual private server built on newer, higher-clock-speed CPUs and NVMe storage as standard, instead of the older processors and SATA/SAS storage a budget VPS ships with — the same virtualization model, tuned to avoid the resource contention a standard tier accepts. For production workloads, Vultr’s
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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 resources, plus root access to install the caching stack — Redis, Varnish, LiteSpeed — that busy WooCommerce and Magento stores actually need. Below that traffic level, well-optimized
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