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246 articles about hosting reviews, deployment and buying advice.
How big a VPS do you need for self-hosted Supabase? This article compares the cost and operational boundaries of the cloud version versus self-hosting, configures keys, Caddy HTTPS, SMTP, Storage, backups and upgrades following the official Docker process, and troubleshoots OOM, connection pooling and email failures.
Qdrant, pgvector, or Milvus—which should you choose? This article breaks down VPS configurations by vector dimensions, indexes, memory, and disk, gives the applicable boundaries for 2-core 4GB, 4-core 8GB, and 8-core 16GB, and provides a Qdrant Docker deployment process with API Key, Caddy HTTPS, and snapshot backups.
Beyond the overexposed options like Dify, AnythingLLM and Ollama, what other AI projects can you run on a VPS? This article picks 8 projects, ordered from lowest to highest VPS resource requirements, and explains what each one does, how much hardware it needs, and how painful it is to deploy.
Don't just compare core counts when buying a VPS. This article explains the real capacity limits of 1 core/1 GB, 2 cores/2 GB, 2 cores/4 GB, and 4 cores/8 GB across scenarios like static sites, WordPress, Docker, multiple sites, databases, and K3s, and provides current plan examples, resource monitoring commands, upgrade signals, and a pre-purchase checklist.
Hetzner raised prices for new Cloud purchases and rescales in June 2026, while OVHcloud launched a cheaper VPS 2027 entry plan and Scaleway adjusted prices for some instances and network resources. This article breaks down the increases using official price tables and gives renewal, downsizing and migration advice for website hosting, development, dedicated CPU and Asian-node needs.
This tutorial explains how to self-host LiteLLM Proxy on a VPS and unify OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, OpenRouter and other models behind an OpenAI-compatible interface. It covers Docker Compose deployment, config.yaml model routing, virtual keys, team budgets, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Caddy HTTPS, backup and upgrades, and common pitfalls.
This tutorial explains how to self-host Flowise on a VPS and build a visual AI workflow and LangChain orchestration platform. It covers choosing VPS specs, Docker Compose deployment, persistent storage, login authentication, OpenAI/Ollama model integration, Caddy HTTPS, backup and upgrades, security hardening, and how to choose between Flowise, Dify and n8n.
This tutorial explains how to self-host Perplexica / Vane on a VPS to build a private AI search engine similar to Perplexity. It covers the SearXNG search backend, single-container Docker deployment, an advanced standalone SearXNG setup, OpenAI/Ollama model integration, Caddy HTTPS, search privacy, backup and upgrade, and common issues such as 502 errors, no search results, and model connection failures.
This tutorial explains how to self-host AnythingLLM on a VPS and build a private AI knowledge base that can upload PDFs, Markdown and web content and answer questions over documents with RAG. It covers VPS sizing, Docker deployment, persistent storage, connecting both OpenAI and Ollama models, Caddy HTTPS, workspace permissions, backup and upgrade, security hardening, and common connection failures.
