Comparison

Hosting· DeploySmith ·

GPU Kubernetes in 2026: NVKE vs k3s vs Managed

Intermediate · 11 min read

NVIDIA open-sourced NVKE in preview: install it on your GPU iron and it runs a managed Kubernetes service, provisioning isolated clusters through NICo and Cluster API. We compare it against DIY k3s/kubeadm and against managed GPU clusters on DigitalOcean and Vultr - with verified prices and limits from the day this was written.…

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Hosting· DeploySmith ·

Hetzner vs DigitalOcean in 2026: Which VPS to Pick

Intermediate · 13 min read

The two most common answers to ‘which VPS should I deploy to’ are now very different animals. Hetzner is cheaper per gigabyte and includes a huge amount of egress, but its cloud is currently hard to order and it has no managed databases or object storage in the US. DigitalOcean costs more per core but ships a finished managed ecosystem, US regions, and per-second billing. This page compares them on the tiers you actually deploy to and gives a verdict per workload.…

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