TL;DR / Summary: Pull-request preview sites do not require a pricey PaaS. A cheap VPS with nginx, a deploy user, and per-branch directories gives designers and clients a URL for every open PR while production stays untouched on its own…
TL;DR / Summary: A self-hosted password vault on a small VPS can replace a shared family or tiny-team subscription if you treat backups and HTTPS as non-negotiable. Size the instance for light API traffic, lock admin signup after invite, and…
The Reseller Model and Where the Costs Hide White-label reselling on a cheap VPS looks like pure margin: buy a $6 server, sell five accounts at $25, keep the difference. In practice the difference is eaten by licensing, IPs, payment…
Allowance Versus Metered Egress Most budget VPS listings quote a transfer allowance, such as 1 TB per month, and leave the billing model unstated. That number means very different things depending on how it is measured. A host can bill…
TL;DR / Summary: A two-person mailing list does not need a managed email platform. A small VPS running a self-hosted list manager costs less per year, gives you the subscriber database, and fails in ways you can actually fix. The…
TL;DR / Summary: A cheap VPS can look fine on paper and still deliver a fraction of its advertised disk speed because the host oversold the array. Steady-state latency and write jitter expose it in ten minutes, long before your…
TL;DR / Summary: A volunteer group needs a wiki far more than it needs a website. Keep it on a low-cost VPS, make editing trivially easy, back up nightly, and accept that the hard problem is governance, not hosting. What…
TL;DR / Summary: A personal RSS reader on a cheap VPS is one of the few services that genuinely fits in 1 GB of RAM. Run a budget VPS with a modest database, cap feed refreshes, and prune old articles so…
A 512 MB VPS that reports 512 MB of memory is reporting a reservation, not a measurement. Of that, 60 to 120 MB is gone before you log in — kernel, page tables, slab caches — and the provider may…
An IPv6-only VPS is cheap to run and increasingly common on budget hosts that have exhausted their IPv4 allocation or charge $2 to $4 per month for a dedicated IPv4 address. It is also the single fastest way to discover…