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The CheapServ blog
Guides, benchmarks and plain explanations from the people who run the racks. New posts most weeks.
GPU & AILoRA fine-tuning Llama 3.1 8B on a single RTX 5090 in an afternoonDataset formatting, QLoRA settings that fit in 32 GB, how long an epoch really takes and how to evaluate before you ship the adapter.
Billing & cryptoUSDT on TRC-20 vs ERC-20: fees, finality and which one to pickThe same dollar on two networks: what a transfer costs, how long we wait before crediting, and the one mistake that loses funds.
ComparisonsKVM vs LXC vs OpenVZ: why we only sell KVMKernel isolation, honest RAM, custom kernels and Docker inside the VM: the trade-offs behind the three ways to slice a host.
GuidesBackups that actually restore: snapshots, off-site copies and a test schedulePanel snapshots are a seatbelt, not a backup. Here is a three-tier plan with restic that costs a few dollars a month and gets tested monthly.
NetworkA /64 on every server: our IPv6 setup and how to use itRouted, not on-link; why that matters for containers, how to give each service its own address and how to test that it really works.
GPU & AIComfyUI on a rented GPU: a setup that survives rebootsA systemd unit, models on a persistent volume, a password in front of the UI and the RTX 4090 vs 5090 numbers for SDXL and FLUX.
NetworkOur transit mix, and why we peer at every exchange we canThree transit providers per hub, public peering at DE-CIX, AMS-IX and Equinix, and how we choose paths when one of them has a bad day.
GuidesRAID 1, RAID 10 or ZFS mirror: choosing storage on a dedicated serverWhat each layout costs you in capacity and speed, what it protects you from, and why we install ZFS on root when you ask.
Product newsWhat we do when an abuse report arrivesTimelines, what gets a warning and what gets a null route, how we verify reports and why we tell you before we act whenever we can.
GuidesRescue mode: fixing a server you locked yourself out ofA broken sshd config, a firewall rule that bit you, a full disk or a bad fstab line: how to boot rescue, mount your disk and undo the damage.
Product newsHelsinki: a second hall and storage plansMore dedicated inventory in Finland, storage-optimised plans with large NVMe, and cheap renewable power that keeps the prices where they are.
Product newsGPU servers arrive in SingaporeH100 and RTX inventory in our APAC hub, the same per-hour-to-monthly pricing, and why latency to Tokyo, Sydney and Mumbai matters for inference. Deploy your first server in under a minute.
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