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The CheapServ blog
Guides, benchmarks and plain explanations from the people who run the racks. New posts most weeks.
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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