Layer 4 vs Layer 7 Load Balancer: A Practical Guide
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.
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500,000 VPS Hosted at Contabo: Thank You
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 and what’s coming.
Best GPU Hosting for AI & Stable Diffusion in 2026
Choosing GPU hosting for AI comes down to VRAM per card, pricing model, and data sovereignty. Vast.ai and RunPod win for irregular runs; Hetzner and IONOS suit European flat-rate workloads; AWS fits elastic scale. Here’s how to pick in 2026.
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GitLab vs GitHub: Key Differences and the Self-Hosted Option (2026)
GitLab and GitHub are the two best-known Git platforms, and both offer modern repositories, pull/merge requests, and CI/CD. The decisive difference is ownership: GitLab offers a free, open-source edition you can run on your own server, while GitHub’s platform is closed and cloud-first, with self-hosting reserved for its enterprise tier. If data ownership is the
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Gitea vs Gogs 2026: Which Lightweight Git Server Should You Run?
Gitea and Gogs are the two minimalist, Go-based self-hosted Git servers — both ship as a single binary, both run on tiny hardware, and they share a common ancestor, because Gitea began as a fork of Gogs. The short answer for most new setups is Gitea: it has the same small footprint but far more
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Gitea vs GitLab: Which Self-Hosted Git Platform Wins in 2026?
Gitea and GitLab solve the same starting problem — hosting your own Git repositories — but they answer it at opposite scales. Gitea is a lightweight code-hosting service that runs on a small server and stays out of your way. GitLab is a full DevOps platform that folds CI/CD, security scanning, and project management into
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7 Best Open-Source GitHub Alternatives You Can Self-Host (2026)
The best open-source GitHub alternatives in 2026 are Gitea and its community fork Forgejo for lightweight self-hosting, and GitLab Community Edition for a full DevOps platform. Beyond those, Gogs covers absolute minimalism, OneDev brings built-in CI/CD with code intelligence, Codeberg offers non-profit hosting if you’d rather not run a server, and SourceHut suits an email-based,
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Gitea vs Forgejo 2026: What’s the Difference and Which to Self-Host?
Gitea and Forgejo are two lightweight, self-hosted Git platforms that look almost identical — because one began as a fork of the other. Forgejo split from Gitea in late 2022 over how the project was governed, and the two have been diverging since. They remain highly compatible today, so the real choice is less about
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LiteLLM vs Portkey, Kong & Cloudflare: AI Gateways Compared
If LiteLLM is the open-source, self-hosted default for routing LLM traffic, the main alternatives each lean a different way: Portkey adds governance and guardrails, Kong AI Gateway fits enterprises already running Kong, and Cloudflare AI Gateway is the managed, ecosystem-native option. This compares all four — and clears up where vLLM and Ollama actually fit,
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LiteLLM vs OpenRouter: Which Should You Use?
LiteLLM and OpenRouter both give you one API in front of many model providers, but they sit at opposite ends of the build-vs-buy spectrum. LiteLLM is an open-source gateway you self-host and own; OpenRouter is a managed router you simply call. If data control and your own cost governance matter, choose LiteLLM. If you want
Best LLM Gateways in 2026: Top LiteLLM Alternatives
An LLM gateway puts a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint in front of many model providers, adding routing, fallbacks, cost tracking, and access keys so your application talks to one API instead of a dozen. The strongest options in 2026 are LiteLLM for open-source self-hosting, OpenRouter for zero-ops managed access, and Portkey when governance and guardrails matter.
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What Is Tracearr? Self-Hosted Media-Server Monitoring
Tracearr is a free, open-source, self-hosted monitoring platform for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. It pulls every stream across your media servers into one dashboard, shows you who is watching what and from where in real time, and uses automated rules to flag likely account sharing. Because it’s self-hosted, your viewing data stays on your own
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Tracearr vs Tautulli: Which Should You Self-Host?
Tautulli is the established, rock-solid analytics tool for Plex, and it’s the right pick if Plex is all you run. Tracearr is the newer challenger: it monitors Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby from one dashboard and adds active account-sharing detection on top. If you run more than one media-server platform, or you specifically want sharing alerts,
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How to Run LLM Inference on a GPU VPS (2026 Guide)
Learn how to run LLM inference on a GPU VPS from scratch. This guide covers VRAM sizing, CUDA setup, and choosing between Ollama and vLLM to deploy a private, cost-efficient AI inference endpoint.
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Best Open Source Load Balancers in 2026
A practical comparison of the best open source load balancers for 2026, from HAProxy and NGINX to Traefik, Envoy, Caddy, and IPVS, with guidance on where each one fits.
