Local NVMe vs network storage on a VPS
Two offers, the same spec sheet: one gives you local NVMe, one a network volume. What changes for latency, snapshots, noisy neighbours and failure.
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Autoprompt skill: fewer failures, more tokens
Autoprompt solves 73 of 89 Terminal-Bench 2.1 tasks against a baseline of 60, at roughly 3x the time and 2x the tokens. What that costs on a rented VPS.
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.
How to benchmark a VPS properly
Benchmark a VPS properly: yabs.sh first, then fio, sysbench and iperf3 by hand. What the numbers mean, and why a single run tells you almost nothing.