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Hetzner Cloud in 2026 is a different animal than the old ‘cheapest VPS in Europe’ story. Prices rose twice this year, ARM is no longer the budget pick, and the cheapest line is temporarily off sale. Here’s the current catalog, the CX23 vs CAX11 math, and what to actually order for a Node.js app, WordPress, Docker, or a database.…
Read more →Agent Droplets bundle compute, inference, storage and 16,000+ tools into one flat monthly price - $50 Pro with 15% off, $200 Team with 20% off. We break down exactly what’s discounted, what isn’t, and whether the flat price is justified for a small/mid deployment stack versus running agents on a plain Droplet.…
Read more →Vultr now sells managed LLM inference by the token on the same account as your VPS. Here’s how its Serverless Inference pricing lines up against renting a Vultr/DigitalOcean GPU and running vLLM yourself, and against calling the OpenAI API - with real prices and no invented benchmarks.…
Read more →OVH started billing Gen-3 (B3/C3/R3) local storage and public IPv4 separately on October 1, 2026. Here’s how to compute the real monthly cost of an instance, why the bill went up 1.4–21.9%, and how to get part of it back.…
Read more →If you run any Docker deployment on a VPS you control, the release from 30 September 2026 is not a routine version bump. Docker Engine 29.8.2 ships 13 security fixes - three in the engine itself and ten in the bundled BuildKit - including one high-severity issue that can hand a remote attacker your registry credentials or swap the image you pull, and two that bite exactly the setup most self-hosters use. This is the hosting upgrade to do this week, not next month. Why this release matters Docker Engine 29.8.2 was released on 30 September 2026 as a dedicated security release.[1] It fixes three Docker Engine vulnerabilities plus a batch of ten BuildKit vulnerabilities, and it bundles updated containerd (v2.3.6), BuildKit (v0.33.1) and runc (v1.5.2).[1][2] …
Read more →DigitalOcean now sells agent infrastructure: a per-second-billed Firecracker sandbox for AI coding agents plus a managed MCP gateway to 16,000+ tools. We break down pricing, how it compares to running agents on a cheap Droplet, and the lock-in you should care about.…
Read more →Every Node.js app that survives more than a week in production eventually asks the same question: what keeps it running when it crashes, and what brings it back when the server reboots? Two answers dominate - PM2, a Node-native process manager, and systemd, the init system already living inside virtually every modern Linux distribution. They are not competing at exactly the same layer. PM2 is a userspace daemon you install on top of the OS. systemd is the OS. Understanding where the boundary sits is the difference between a setup that quietly works for years and one that fights you every time you deploy. This guide walks through the real, documentation-backed behavior of each so you can pick deliberately. What each one actually is PM2 is a daemon process manager written for Node.js, installed via npm. You start it with npm install pm2@latest -g, then launch an app with pm2 start app.js. PM2 daemonizes the process, keeps it alive, and gives you a CLI to inspect status, tail logs, and reload the app.[1] Its headline feature for Node is cluster mode: with the -i flag it spans a workload across every available CPU with zero changes to your code.[2] …
Read more →Containers look like the obvious answer - until they cost you more CPU and RAM than they save. Here’s a framework for deciding, and how to self-host lean either way.…
Read more →Shared hosting vs VPS - what each actually gives you, who it’s for, and how to decide without overspending.…
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