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The CheapServ blog
Guides, benchmarks and plain explanations from the people who run the racks. New posts most weeks.
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.
Billing & cryptoWhy the deposit amount is locked for 30 minutesVolatility, exchange spreads and mempool delays: how we settle on a crypto amount for a dollar deposit and what happens if you pay late.
GuidesPostgreSQL on an 8 GB VPS: the ten settings that mattershared_buffers, work_mem, checkpoints, autovacuum and connection pooling, with the values we use and the symptoms each one fixes.
EngineeringHow we measure uptime, and what 99.99% means on our status pageExternal probes from three continents, what counts as an incident, how partial degradation is scored and why we publish maintenance in advance.
Product newsHello, world: why we started CheapServTwo racks in Frankfurt, one rule about pricing and a promise to say “sold out” when we are. The post that started the blog. Deploy your first server in under a minute.
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