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Guides, benchmarks and plain explanations from the people who run the racks. New posts most weeks.
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ComparisonsThe best VPS hosts that accept USDT in 2026, comparedTen hosts that document USDT payments, compared on network, processor, identity checks, price and refunds, plus five big names that do not take it.
GuidesHow to run a Bitcoin full node on a VPS in 2026A full node is about 890 GB now, not 600. How to size the server, install Bitcoin Core from verified binaries and run it as a service, pruned or full.
GuidesHow to run your own Monero node on a VPSPruned at about 113 GB or full at 285 GB, on NVMe: install monerod from verified binaries and connect your wallets over restricted RPC, SSH or Tor.
SecurityHow to rent a server without KYC: a practical privacy checklistTen steps from the e-mail address to the reverse DNS, the difference between card-free, no-KYC and unlinkable, and an honest list of what any host can still see.
EngineeringHow we deliver a dedicated server in under 60 secondsPre-racked inventory, automated imaging and honest stock counts: the mechanics behind bare metal that is online before your coffee.
ComparisonsVPS, dedicated or GPU: which server do you actually need?A sizing guide with real workloads: where a $7 VPS is plenty, where bare metal pays for itself, and when a GPU is the only honest answer.
SecurityThe first hour on a new Ubuntu VPS: a hardening checklistKeys only, a firewall that defaults to deny, automatic patches and a few kernel knobs: the twelve steps we wish everyone did before deploying anything.
GPU & AIServing an open-weight LLM with vLLM on an H100From a bare Ubuntu image to an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for Llama 3.1 70B in FP8, with the flags that matter and the throughput we measured.
Billing & cryptoPaying with Monero: what happens between your wallet and your balanceSubaddresses, the ten-block rule, why an XMR deposit shows “confirming” for about twenty minutes and what to do if you sent slightly too little.
GuidesA WireGuard hub for your whole team on a $3 VPSA hub-and-spoke VPN with per-device keys, split tunnelling and IPv6, in twenty lines of config and one systemd unit.
NetworkHow our DDoS mitigation actually worksFlow telemetry, scrubbing capacity in every hub, what “always on” means for your latency and the attacks we cannot absorb for you.
NetworkChoosing a location: the latency numbers that matterRound-trip times from each of our six sites to the places your users are, and a simple rule for picking one when they are everywhere. Deploy your first server in under a minute.
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