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Running Gitea on your own VPS gives you full control over your code, but a default install leaves several attack surfaces open. This checklist covers every Gitea-specific hardening…

Load balancer vs reverse proxy: one distributes traffic across servers, the other represents and protects them. They overlap so much that NGINX does both. Here’s the real difference,…

Run GPU rendering on a VPS for Blender, Cinema 4D with Redshift, Octane and Unreal Engine. This guide covers headless setup, VRAM planning, command-line rendering and overnight batch…

Self-host Tracearr on a VPS: a 2026 step-by-step Docker Compose guide with PostgreSQL and Redis to monitor Plex, Jellyfin, and more from one dashboard.

Run your own Git server on a Contabo VPS using Docker Compose. This guide covers the full setup: Gitea with PostgreSQL, a reverse proxy, HTTPS, and SSH —…

Compare GPU VPS, dedicated GPU servers, and hyperscaler GPU instances across cost, setup time, isolation, and scalability. Find the right GPU cloud deployment model for your AI, ML,…

A practical look at Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancers. Compare how each works, where each wins, and how to choose for your stack.

Half a million VPS now run on Contabo. This one’s a thank-you to the people who put them there, plus a look at what we added this year…