Serving a Static Site: Storage, CDN and What It Costs
A static site needs almost no compute. Getting the delivery layer right is most of the job.
Category: Guides
Practical guides on choosing, buying and securing cloud accounts.
Running Client Work: One Account Per Client
Sharing a single cloud account across clients creates problems that are painful to unwind later.
Monitoring: Knowing Before Your Users Tell You
Four signals cover most of what goes wrong, and setting them up takes less time than the first incident without them.
Infrastructure as Code: Why It Matters More After a Handover
If your environment only exists as clicks in a console, it cannot be rebuilt. Here is the case for defining it in files.
Hardening SSH on a New Cloud Server
A fresh server with password login is under automated attack within minutes. These are the settings that stop it.
Cutting a Cloud Bill: Where the Money Actually Goes
Most overspending comes from a handful of recurring causes. Work through them in order of size.
A Backup Strategy That Survives Losing the Account
Snapshots inside the account are not backups. Here is what a recoverable setup actually looks like.
Where to Rent GPUs: Comparing the Options
GPU pricing varies more between providers than almost anything else in cloud. Here is how the options differ.
Deploying for Asia-Pacific Users
Latency to Asia-Pacific is a physics problem. Here is how the providers compare on coverage there.
European Cloud Providers and Data Residency
When data has to stay in Europe, the provider list gets shorter and the trade-offs get clearer.