Shared vs dedicated vCPU
The cheap line (DO Basic, Hetzner CX, Vultr Regular) is shared CPU — you burst fine but a noisy neighbor steals cycles, and providers throttle sustained 100% use.
Dedicated/CPU-optimized plans cost 2-3x but the core is yours.
— Bursty web traffic, idle most of the day: shared, save the cash
— Video encode, builds, anything pegged at 100%: dedicated
Check steal in top — high steal% means the shared box is starving you. Watch it tonight.

ЕЮ Иванов продолжает кошмарить АффПапу, конторку, которая накинула говна на вентилятор этим летом. Тогда в AffPapa не знали, с каким говном идут бодаться, поэтому заслуженно проиграли. 😏

На этот раз ЕЮ зарегал товарный знак AffPapa — совсем скоро имя компании будет официально принадлежать ему. Чтобы убедиться в трушности мува, переходим по ссыл-Очке и вводим серийный номер: 2026793242. Там видим, что заявка на регистрацию подана лично Евгением Юрьичем.

Всё это выглядит забавно, но давайте не забывать, в какой сфере мы работаем и что реально может произойти с жирным троллем за воровство нейминга. Впрочем, толстому не привыкать отхватывать пиздов за проделки в интернете, поэтому ждем очередную фотку разбитого ебала и длинный пост с извинениями. 😏😏😏

В арбитраже денег нет 💵

NVMe vs SATA SSD VPS
Providers still sell cheaper 'SSD' plans that are SATA. For a DB-heavy site the IO difference is night and day — NVMe does 5-10x the random IOPS, which is exactly what MySQL pounds.
— Static/cached site, rarely hits disk: SATA SSD is fine, take the discount
— DB writes, logs, busy WP: pay for NVMe
Quick check: fio or just ioping -c 10 . — sub-ms = NVMe, 5ms+ = you got SATA. Test your box tonight.

logrotate vs journald vacuum
Two log monsters eat your tiny disk: app logs (nginx/php) and systemd's binary journal. They need different brooms.
— Text logs in /var/log: logrotate with compress + maxsize 50M
— Binary journal: journalctl --vacuum-size=200M or set SystemMaxUse=200M
logrotate won't touch journald, and people forget journald can quietly hoard 4GB. Set a cap on both. Check du -sh /var/log/journal tonight.

Docker vs bare-metal on small VPS
Docker is great for reproducibility, but on a 1GB box every container brings its own libc copy, an extra network layer, and 100-300MB of overhead before your app even loads.
— Run 1-2 sites, want max RAM for PHP/DB: bare LEMP, no Docker
— Juggling conflicting PHP/node versions, ship to other boxes: Docker
I keep prod LEMP bare-metal and use Docker only for one-off tools. RAM is the budget, spend it on the app. Try it tonight.

Monit vs Uptime Kuma
Both watch your stack but solve different problems. Monit runs on the box and restarts dead services automatically — nginx crashes, Monit brings it back, no human.
Uptime Kuma is an external dashboard that tells you the whole box is down (Monit can't, it died with it).
— Auto-heal a stuck php-fpm: Monit
— Know when the server vanishes + status page: Uptime Kuma
Run Kuma on a *different* cheap box. Watching yourself is useless. Try it tonight.

gzip vs Brotli in nginx
Brotli compresses text 15-25% smaller than gzip at the same speed for static assets — free bandwidth and faster loads. But the nginx Brotli module isn't built in; you compile it or use a package that has it.
— Stock nginx, don't want to recompile: gzip on; gzip_comp_level 5;
— Pre-compress static files once with brotli_static on;: ship .br files, zero runtime cost
Dynamic HTML? gzip level 4-5 is the sweet spot — level 9 burns CPU for ~2% gain. Tune it tonight.

Three (or four) more for the webmaster & site monetization crowd:

— @EdgeOfGloryCDN — True stories of sites that went global on a CDN -- the latency drops,…
— @CacheCatch — The best caching reads, tools, and configs from around the web,…
— @BackupOrDie — Strong opinions on backup strategy, because the people who skip it…
— @LockdownLedger — Battle-tested security hardening checklists and SOPs for your sites.…
Follow the ones that fit — they're all part of the same network.