Running Docker on a Cloud Server, Properly
Containers on a single server are an excellent, underrated production setup. There are about eight details that separate a good one from a fragile one.
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95 articles on choosing a provider, running servers, keeping accounts secure and keeping the bill sensible — written for the twelve platforms we sell accounts for.
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- 01 Cloud Account Guides How to choose, verify, secure and hand over a cloud account you did not open yourself. 10 articles
- 02 Cloud Provider Guides What each of the twelve providers is good at, what it costs and where it fits. 12 articles
- 03 Provider Comparisons Head-to-head reads on the providers people weigh against each other. 12 articles
- 04 Cloud VPS & Servers Instances, droplets, dedicated boxes: sizing, storage and running them well. 10 articles
- 05 Cloud Security Account hardening, keys, identity, network controls and the mistakes that cost most. 10 articles
- 06 Cloud Cost & Pricing Where cloud bills come from and the levers that actually move them. 10 articles
- 07 Developer & DevOps Deployment, automation, CI, containers and the day-to-day of shipping on cloud. 10 articles
- 08 AI & Cloud GPUs, inference, managed model services and what running AI workloads really needs. 5 articles
- 09 Networking & Storage VPCs, DNS, load balancing, object storage, block volumes and backups. 5 articles
- 10 Migration & Deployment Moving workloads between providers and getting them live without downtime. 5 articles
- 11 Cloud Explainers Plain definitions for the terms that keep coming up in cloud documentation. 6 articles
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Google Cloud: Projects, Data and the Parts That Stand Out
GCP is organised around projects rather than accounts, and its strongest products are in data and machine learning.
Planning a Cloud Migration That Does Not Overrun
Migrations overrun because the inventory was incomplete, not because the technology was hard. Start with the list.
Running Cloud Accounts as an Agency
One account for every client is chaos. One account per client is overhead.
Cloud Terminology, Translated
The same concept has three names depending on the provider. Here is the translation table, plus the terms that…
What an AWS Account Actually Gives You
AWS is less one product than a catalogue of a couple of hundred.
Logs, Metrics and Traces: Which One Answers Which Question
Three kinds of telemetry, three kinds of question. Collecting all three badly is worse than collecting two well.
Cloud AI Services or Your Own Models
Every hyperscaler sells ready-made AI services. Whether to use them or run your own comes down to four questions.
Managed Services vs Self-Hosting: The Honest Cost Comparison
A managed database costs three times the server it runs on. Whether that is expensive depends on what your time is…
Load Balancing Basics for Cloud Servers
A load balancer distributes traffic. More usefully, it removes broken servers from rotation before your users find…
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