Platform Guides

European data residency is the reason most teams choose OVHcloud. It is worth understanding precisely what that buys you, and what it does not.

Oracle’s free tier is genuinely more generous than its competitors and comes with one significant catch that catches everyone.

Linode is now part of Akamai, which changed the network story more than the product. Here is what that means for accounts and workloads.

OVHcloud is unusual in selling both public cloud instances and dedicated hardware at scale. The right choice depends almost entirely on how steady your load is.

Linode’s plan catalogue is small and honest. The choice comes down to whether your workload can tolerate shared CPU, and how much memory it really needs.

Two things separate DigitalOcean account configurations: how many Droplets you can run, and whether outbound port 25 is open. Both are simpler than they sound.

DigitalOcean keeps its catalogue deliberately small, which makes sizing easy once you understand the one distinction that matters: shared versus dedicated CPU.

Azure’s account types look similar on paper and behave differently in practice. The difference that matters is what happens after the introductory credit runs out.

Azure’s hierarchy confuses newcomers because three layers sound similar. Each has one job, and getting them right early avoids a migration later.

Compute Engine lets you define a machine that fits your workload instead of rounding up to the next fixed shape. That is worth real money.