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Self-hosting Boop: a tiny notification inbox for developers
Boop is a self-hosted notification inbox that pushes events from your apps to your iPhone. This guide covers deploying it on a VPS with Docker, connecting Apple push…
Wan 2.2 Video Generation with ComfyUI: A GPU VPS Setup Guide
A step-by-step guide to running Wan 2.2 video generation in ComfyUI on a GPU VPS, from installing ComfyUI and downloading the model files to loading the native workflow…
Best wordpress plugins for translation
Quick take: TranslatePress is the best visual option, WPML suits complex business sites, and Polylang gives you a flexible manual workflow. Weglot offers the fastest cloud-based setup, while…
Stop Paying for SaaS: A Self-Hosting Starter Roadmap
Start by auditing what you’re actually paying for, then replace one tool at a time — not everything at once. The order that works: set up your server…
Contabo’s Product Ladder: From Entry-Level VPS to Dedicated Servers
Contabo runs a complete product ladder under one account: Core VPS for light workloads, Performance VPS for CPU- or I/O-bound applications, Max Performance VPS for guaranteed dedicated cores,…
Shared Hosting vs. VPS: Why Your Site Keeps Failing Under Load
Six specific, nameable technical failure modes explain why shared hosting breaks down under real-world load — noisy-neighbor resource contention, Docker’s OOM killer terminating containers, database connection caps, and…
GPU VPS Pricing: Is Contabo the Cheapest GPU Cloud in 2026?
What you need to know Contabo GPU VPS costs $1,199 a month for one NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition, with 96 GB of video memory on…
What Is BentoPDF? A Privacy-First, Self-Hosted PDF Toolkit
BentoPDF lets you run a private, self-hosted PDF toolkit on your own Contabo VPS. See how the client-side architecture works, how to deploy it with Docker, and which…