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Managed vs unmanaged dedicated servers: the true monthly cost
A line-by-line comparison of what a bare dedicated server costs once monitoring, backups, security tooling and engineer time are added.
Read the guideDedicated servers vs cloud for a SaaS with a €20,000 monthly bill
A worked migration of a typical SaaS from hyperscaler instances, managed database and egress to a few dedicated servers, with the before-and-after numbers.
Read the guideOperations
What it takes to run a wholesale dedicated server in production
The checklist a competent operations engineer works through between receiving a root password and trusting a dedicated server with production traffic.
Read the guideSizing a dedicated server for Postgres: cores, memory, NVMe
How to pick memory, storage and CPU for production Postgres on dedicated hardware, and why one 48-core NVMe server replaces a lot of managed database spend.
Read the guideKubernetes on bare metal: a three-node high-availability design
How to build a production Kubernetes cluster on three dedicated servers: control plane, storage, networking, ingress and the operations that keep it running.
Read the guideBackups that restore: a 3-2-1 plan for dedicated servers
How to design, encrypt, schedule and, above all, test backups for dedicated servers so the first restore is not during an outage.
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