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Learn how to safely set up block storage volumes on Linux VMs with disk checks, mount paths, fstab, permissions, backups, and restore planning.
Learn how backup monitoring detects failed and stale recovery points, broken chains, storage issues, and restore evidence that no longer meets production recovery objectives.
Learn how a backup retention policy sets daily, weekly, and monthly recovery points for production VMs while balancing restore needs, risk, and cost control.
Learn Linux volume expansion across disks, partitions, LVM, ext4, and XFS, with safer checks, verification, and rollback planning for production VMs.
Learn how to evaluate VM disk storage for production apps, including capacity planning, local storage benefits, failure risks, and when to use other storage layers.
Learn a VPS migration checklist for provider-to-provider moves, including data sync, DNS cutover, validation, rollback criteria, and safe source retirement.
Plan VM autoscaling with demand signals, capacity limits, warm-up, stabilization, readiness, safe scale-in, dependency guardrails, testing, and cost controls.
Build a cloud cost dashboard in Power BI that explains VM spend by resource, workload, environment, owner, client, and period change.
Learn what a VPS is used for, which workloads fit virtual servers, and when websites, apps, databases, Docker, automation, or Windows need another hosting model.
Compare the best VPS hosting providers by performance, support, pricing, locations, backups, and lock-in using a transparent decision framework.
Learn how to choose a VPS provider with a 10-point framework for performance, support, pricing, backups, security, location, scalability, and lock-in.
Compare monthly VPS plans, hourly and pay-as-you-go billing, long-term discounts, prorated credits, and the pricing model that fits your workload.
Learn how much RAM a VPS needs for websites, WordPress, databases, Docker, Windows, and game servers, plus how to measure real usage and resize safely.
Learn what a VPS uptime SLA means, how 99.9% converts to downtime, and how credits, exclusions, measurement rules, and claim windows affect buyers.
Learn how to benchmark VPS CPU, NVMe storage, network, consistency, and price-performance without being misled by one synthetic score.
Learn when WordPress VPS hosting beats shared and managed hosting, with a decision framework for traffic, control, WooCommerce, cost, and operations.
Compare VPS and reseller hosting for agencies by client isolation, control, support, margins, scaling, migration, and operational responsibility.
Compare VPS hosting with and without cPanel across license cost, resource use, control, email, security, multi-site management, and custom app compatibility.
Compare KVM VPS and OpenVZ containers across isolation, guest kernel control, operating systems, performance, resource guarantees, and workload fit.
Learn how VPS hosting works, from virtualization and resource allocation to networking, storage, isolation, performance, security, and server management.
Learn how to choose VPS hosting by comparing control, management, sizing, operating systems, pricing, security, reliability, recovery, and growth requirements.
Learn how to design production app storage and recovery with VM disks, volumes, object storage, backups, and restore testing.
Learn how to test VM restores, verify backups and snapshots, check apps, databases, storage, networks, and prove recovery readiness.
Learn when to use block storage volumes for databases, containers, app data, media processing, backups, and when object storage is better.
Learn how portable serverless handlers reduce Lambda lock-in, keep functions easier to move, and support standard runtimes on Raff Functions.
Learn when to use serverless functions for webhooks, when VMs are better, and how to design webhook retries, logs, security, and storage.
Learn when to run cron jobs on serverless functions or VMs, with examples for scheduled tasks, reports, syncs, retries, and Raff Functions.
Learn how serverless function pricing works for CPU, memory, requests, egress, cron jobs, webhooks, storage events, and Raff Functions.
Learn when small teams should use serverless functions or VMs for apps, cron jobs, webhooks, storage events, and background work on Raff.
Learn when to separate app and database server for SaaS apps, with a decision framework for cost, recovery, security, and Raff database options before scaling.
Learn where app uploads should live, with a decision framework for VM disk vs object storage, SaaS file storage, backups, security, and Raff Object Storage.
Learn cloud VM vs app platform tradeoffs for startups, with a decision framework for control, cost, deployment speed, storage, and production risk in 2026.
Learn the difference between VPS, cloud VM, and cloud server, when the terms overlap, and how to choose the right virtual server for apps, websites, and workloads.
Learn when VPS web hosting makes sense for small teams, with a decision framework for shared hosting, VPS hosting, managed hosting, cloud VMs, performance, security, and cost.
Learn how to compare VPS hosting and AWS EC2 with a decision framework for pricing, billing, storage, bandwidth, networking, scaling, and team complexity.
Learn how to compare cheap VPS and reliable VPS hosting with a decision framework for workload risk, uptime, storage, bandwidth, backups, and support.
Learn how to choose the best VPS hosting for developers with a decision framework for apps, APIs, Docker, CI/CD, databases, and staging.
Understand cloud VPS vs traditional VPS hosting with a decision framework for control, scaling, storage, pricing, reliability, and developer workflows.
Learn when a small business needs a VPS, with 9 practical use cases for websites, apps, remote desktops, databases, automation, and backups.
Learn when to choose 2 vCPU or 4 vCPU cloud VMs, how CPU affects real workloads, and when memory or storage matters more.
Learn what fits on a 2 vCPU / 2 GB cloud VM, including websites, dev servers, lightweight apps, Docker projects, and when to upgrade.
Understand the infrastructure AI coding agents need, from clean cloud dev environments to testing VMs, secrets isolation, and workload sizing.
Learn when HiMem VMs make sense, why RAM can matter more than CPU, and how to choose memory-focused cloud servers for databases and apps.
Learn Raff’s new General Purpose VM sizes, from 2 vCPU entry plans to HiMem options, with a framework for choosing CPU, RAM, storage, and price.
Learn cloud server right-sizing with a practical framework for choosing VM CPU, memory, and storage without overpaying or underbuilding.
Learn cloud budget guardrails for startups with a VM spend drift framework covering ownership, idle resources, alerts, sizing, and review cadence.
Learn why Microsoft licensing matters when choosing a Windows VM provider, including SPLA, BYOL, RDP, SQL Server, Office, and SMB workload planning.
Understand Microsoft SPLA for hosted Windows VMs, when it applies, how Raff uses SPLA, and what licensing questions to ask before production.
Learn how to debug a website not loading on a cloud VM. Check DNS, firewall, web server status, ports, app processes, and logs.
Decide when a SaaS app should stay on one VM or separate its application, database, workers, files, cache, and traffic routing across multiple systems.
Learn shared vs dedicated vCPU differences, workload fit, pricing trade-offs, and how to choose the right Raff VM class for performance and cost.
Plan a safe migration from shared hosting to a Raff cloud VM, including sizing, data sync, DNS cutover, rollback, security, and SaaS operations.
Compare cloud-init, custom images, and one-click apps for VM provisioning. Learn when to use each model and how to combine them safely.
Choose the right cloud VM size by evaluating CPU, RAM, storage, network demand, workload behavior, bottlenecks, and safe resize signals.
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