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There is a dangerous myth circulating in the VPS hosting world. It goes like this: "I don't need to upgrade my RAM plan; I'll just create a 16GB Swap file on my NVMe SSD. It's fast enough." As the Ops Team at Serv... (Read more)

In the life of every systems administrator, there is a moment of pure dread: reports start flooding in that "the site is down," but when you check the server, everything seems fine. The... (Read more)

If you manage a Linux VPS long enough, you know the drill: the site goes down, Nginx returns a "502 Bad Gateway," and your system logs (`dmesg` or `/var/log/syslog`) are screaming Out of memory: Kill process (php-fpm). This is the Linux kernel's... (Read more)

It’s Not About Philosophy, It’s About RAM In the open-source community, the debate between MariaDB and MySQL often devolves into arguments about Oracle’s corporate ownership versus open-source purity... (Read more)

The "Fear of the Switch" is Costing You Money In the hosting industry, we call it "Vendor Lock-in by Anxiety." We see business owners clinging to $5/month ... (Read more)

In our experience managing production servers at ServerSpan, roughly 60% of support tickets labeled "website down" are actually performance bottlenecks disguised as outages. The server is up, but the VPS Server is so overloaded it can't handshake on port 443... (Read more)