Managed vs unmanaged VPS: which do you need?
Managed or unmanaged VPS? Price the labour: patching, firewall, backups, monitoring, the 2am reboot. What managed leaves out, plus the middle path.
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Managed or unmanaged VPS? Price the labour: patching, firewall, backups, monitoring, the 2am reboot. What managed leaves out, plus the middle path.
Only one reason forces a Canadian server, and it is not latency. What PIPEDA really requires, and how to measure the round trip from where your users are.
A GPU on a VPS buys batch throughput and room for large models. Quantized chat models, embeddings and Whisper small run fine on CPU. Start there, measure.
What really separates a shared hypervisor from a whole machine: noisy neighbours, steal time, price steps, and when each one is the cheaper buy.
VPS prices run from about $3 to over $100 a month for specs that read the same. Here is what drives the gap, and what to compare before you buy.