Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Egress Costs: The Bill Nobody Budgets For
Compute is easy to forecast. Egress is the line that turns a predictable bill into a surprising one, and it varies enormously between providers.
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UpCloud MaxIOPS: When Storage Performance Is Worth Paying For
Storage performance is the thing most teams ignore until a database gets slow. UpCloud built its platform around it, which matters for some workloads and not others.
Cloud Infrastructure
Choosing a Cloud Region: Latency, Residency and the Things That Bite
Region choice looks trivial and is one of the least reversible decisions you will make. Four factors decide it, and most people only consider one.
Cloud Infrastructure
Shared vs Dedicated vCPU: The Difference That Explains Your Latency
Two servers with the same vCPU count can perform completely differently. The difference is whether those cores are yours.
Platform Guides
Kamatera Server Sizing: Custom Shapes and CPU Types
Kamatera lets you choose CPU, RAM and disk independently. That flexibility only pays off if your workload is genuinely unbalanced.
Email Delivery
Amazon SES Production Access: Sandbox, Limits and Reputation
Every new SES account starts in a sandbox that makes it useless for real sending. Getting out of it, and staying out, is the whole game.
Security
Google Workspace Security: The Admin Settings That Matter Most
Workspace holds your organisation's mail and documents. A handful of admin settings do most of the work of protecting it.
Workspace
Migrating to Google Workspace: The Cutover That Does Not Break Mail
Buying the licences is the easy part. Moving an organisation across without losing mail or landing in spam folders is where the work is.
Cloud Guides
Hosting in Mainland China: ICP Filing and the Hong Kong Alternative
Hosting inside mainland China is a regulatory decision before it is a technical one. Knowing when you can avoid it saves months.
Platform Guides
Hetzner Cloud: Server Limits, Verification and Value
Hetzner is consistently the cheapest way to get real cores in Europe. The trade-off is a narrow service catalogue and a strict verification process.