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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Uptime, Availability Zones and What Redundancy Really Costs
Every extra nine costs more than the last. Deciding how many you need is a business decision that engineering keeps…
UpCloud and the MaxIOPS Storage Argument
UpCloud competes on storage performance rather than price. If your bottleneck is disk rather than CPU, that is a more…
Cloud Disk Types: NVMe, SSD, Network Volumes and Why It Matters
Two servers with the same CPU and RAM can differ by an order of magnitude in database performance.
Deploying Without Downtime
Zero-downtime deployment is mostly about two things: having more than one of everything, and making database changes…
What Actually Happens When You Launch a Cloud Instance
A cloud instance is a real machine with a scheduler in between.
Shared vs Dedicated vCPU: What You Are Actually Buying
The cheaper plan gives you the same core count and a different guarantee.
UpCloud vs Linode: When Disk Speed Is the Deciding Factor
Similar prices, similar plans, similar managed services. The interesting difference is storage performance, and it…
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