Run a media server on a storage VPS?
A storage VPS holds terabytes cheaply, but can it stream them? Do the bandwidth arithmetic first, then split the library from the application.
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Self-hosted video conferencing on a VPS
The bandwidth math that decides your box size, plus Jitsi, BigBlueButton and Galène compared on RAM, open UDP ports and what breaks behind NAT.
How to read a cheap VPS offer
A line by line teardown of a cheap VPS listing: vCPU oversell, unlimited bandwidth clauses, NVMe claims, renewal pricing, and a 30 minute acceptance test.
Block AI Crawlers on Your Own Server
Measure how much of your traffic is AI crawlers from your own access log, then block or rate limit them in nginx, Apache or Caddy without losing real visitors.
Run a Tor relay on your VPS
Set up a guard or middle Tor relay on a Linux VPS: torrc, bandwidth accounting that protects a metered plan, nyx monitoring, and the slow consensus ramp.