Technical posts on running a solo-operated VPS platform, colocation, networking, and the decisions behind the hardware.
The hyperscalers do not sell you a server. They sell you a metered utility with several hundred billable dimensions, and outbound traffic is the one that surprises people. Here is what 5 TB of egress costs on each platform, and what it costs on RackWorks.
DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Akamai Cloud built the modern developer VPS market. The same pricing model has been running for over a decade, and it quietly bills you for things RackWorks includes in the plan price. Here is the comparison with the numbers left in.
Metabase is now available in RackWorks one-click marketplace. Deploy a full business intelligence platform in minutes, no CLI or configuration required.
Skip the SSH commands and configuration files. Deploy a production-ready WordPress site from the RackWorks portal in under 60 seconds, no terminal skills required.
Compare KVM and Dedicated Core plans with truly unlimited transfer. Learn which tier fits your production workload without surprise overage costs.
Shared vCPUs are fine for small workloads. Production apps need predictable performance. Here's how to choose between noisy neighbors and isolation.
A step-by-step guide to locking down SSH on a new Linux server: key-only auth, sane sshd settings, and the tradeoffs that actually matter.
How to match CPU, RAM, storage type, and bandwidth to what your workload actually does, without overbuying or starving it.
Deploy Invoice Ninja, Twenty CRM, Chatwoot, Cal.com, Plane, Listmonk, OpenSign, and Outline on your own VPS in a single step.
Detroit sits closer to more Midwest users than most people assume. Here is why it makes sense as a low-latency VPS location.
NixOS has a reputation for complexity that is well-earned on bare metal. On a KVM VPS, that reputation does not apply. Here is why declarative configuration and built-in rollbacks make NixOS one of the most practical server choices available, and how to get started on RackWorks in minutes.
Both KVM and LXC are available at RackWorks, but they are not interchangeable. Most people pick the wrong one because they go by price rather than fit. Here is how to tell them apart and choose correctly.
A breakdown of why I chose 123Net DC1 in Southfield, Michigan: the facility, the network, the Detroit Internet Exchange, and what it actually means for VPS latency.