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European hosting: geographic origin alone is not enough
"Datacenter in France" on a slide says nothing about US backups, offshore support, or Cloud Act omitted from the contract.
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Cron jobs: finally make invisible processing observable
Cron jobs fail silently for weeks — until an unpaid invoice or unsynced stock reveals the missing monitoring.
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WebSocket: hosting real time without exhausting connections
Every open WebSocket client consumes memory and file descriptors — far beyond a classic HTTP request. Real time requires reverse proxy tuning, timeouts, and dedicated scaling.
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Unlimited o2switch: which limits appear as a site grows?
o2switch sells a single beloved "unlimited" plan for freelancers. But CPU, inodes, email, and complex stacks eventually draw a ceiling — here is where.
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Launching a public API: set limits before clients arrive
A public API without rate limiting, quotas, and observability always ends up saturating the database — often because of one "trusted" client with a bad loop.
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E-learning: protect courses without slowing every learner
DRM, signed URLs, and heavy authentication protect videos — but can turn every lesson into a wait. Balance comes from architecture, not a magic plugin.
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Property portal: indexing, photos, and search change the equation
A property portal with 15,000 listings does not behave like a brochure site. Heavy photos, SQL filters, and mapping require a different hosting tier.
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Sovereign Scaleway: does the promise cover every service in the catalogue?
Scaleway sells itself as French sovereign cloud with SecNumCloud on selected offers. But Kubernetes, object storage, and marketplace services do not share the same perimeter — a catalogue investigation.
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Community forum: plan for attachments before growth
When a forum takes off, it rarely fails on HTML traffic first — it explodes on storage for avatars, images, and PDFs. Planning attachments early avoids an emergency migration.
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Event website: size for a day you cannot replay
A festival, conference, or online ticketing site cannot run on "we will see on the day." Here is how to size hosting for the spike without paying for peak capacity all year.
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Podcast: should audio hosting live with the website?
Putting 80 MB MP3 files on the same shared host as WordPress saturates bandwidth and backups. RSS, audio CDN and dedicated platforms — a different calculation from a brochure site.
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Hetzner pricing: which operating trade-offs sit behind attractive offers?
A CX22 under €4 and unbeatable dedicated servers — Hetzner delivers on price. This investigation covers what you must run alone: support, backups, incidents.
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cPanel, Plesk, or none: which control panel fits your autonomy?
cPanel reassures beginners; Plesk unifies Windows and Linux; without a panel you gain control and lose the safety net. The right choice follows your technical autonomy — not fashion.
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Giving SFTP access to a team without sharing one password
One shared FTP account in LastPass means zero traceability and impossible revocation. Individual accounts, SSH keys and folder-level rights — minimum hygiene before the first freelancer.
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Domain redirects: preserve SEO and journeys without creating loops
HTTP 301, registrar change, www vs apex — a bad redirect erases SEO or traps users in an infinite loop. Map before touching DNS.
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Infomaniak and ecology: which evidence matters beyond commitments?
Infomaniak scores among the best on ecology in our directory. But carbon neutrality, PUE and renewable energy are not read on a marketing page — here are the documents and metrics to demand before deciding.
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Mailing lists: why your web host is not always the right sender
Sending 10,000 newsletters from the site shared SMTP invites spam folders and suspension. Deliverability, IP reputation, and compliance are a different job than web hosting.
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IPv6 for a new website: enable it without making it a separate project
Dual-stack A + AAAA is enough for most new sites. No need to rebuild your infrastructure — enable IPv6 at the host, check DNS, and test mail separately.
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Choosing a cloud region: latency, law, and cost in one calculation
Gravelines looks close and cheap — until Swiss users wait 80 ms more and backups replicate to the US without a data processing agreement. A region is chosen in three dimensions, never at random.
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OVHcloud Anti-DDoS: how far does included protection really go?
DDoS mitigation is included on most OVHcloud offers — but not at the same volumes, protocols, or SLAs. An investigation into the real perimeter.
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Disaster recovery: turning backups into real continuity
Having a backup is not a recovery plan. RTO, RPO, tested restore, and defined roles — what separates a disk copy from an organisation that survives a major outage.
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Abuse reports: prepare a response before the first message
Phishing, spam, flagged content — the host opens a ticket with a twenty-four-hour deadline. Without an internal procedure, you lose the site before finding the compromised account.
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Host, client, agency: where does each responsibility begin?
Outage, data breach or illegal content — everyone points elsewhere. Without a written matrix, the client assumes "everything is included" and the host points to "your application".
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Servebolt or Raidboxes: who optimizes demanding WordPress better?
Two managed WordPress specialists, two geographies: Servebolt from Norway, Raidboxes from Germany. Performance, allowed stack, and real cost on a demanding site.