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Strapi, Directus or Contentful separate content and rendering — useful with multiple fronts and autonomous front team. Otherwise you pay for two stacks for a brochure site.
A notebook running locally on 32 GB RAM is not team infrastructure. Sharing, auth, sensitive data and GPU cost — how to industrialise without Jupyter becoming shadow IT.
Hourly or monthly, spot or reserved, real or shared VRAM — a badly chosen GPU instance costs more idle than used. Ask these questions before signing.
Renting a GPU before defining latency, context, and confidentiality leads to GPU bills and a POC that never reaches production. Map usage, data, and budget first.
A vague message reassures nobody; a false ETA destroys trust. In an incident, structure updates — impact, scope, actions, next checkpoint — without guessing the cause.
A status page built in five minutes after an outage helps nobody. Prepare components, subscribers and runbook before the first 502 — your customers and support will thank you.
Four nines means 52 minutes of downtime per year — in theory. In practice, SLAs exclude maintenance, DNS, and sometimes upstream network. Read the contract, not the badge.
LCP, INP and CLS depend as much on your theme as on the server. Before switching hosts for a PageSpeed badge, separate what belongs to CDN, PHP and the front end.
HTTP/3 and QUIC promise lower latency on unstable networks. On a site already fast over HTTP/2 with healthy TTFB, gains are often marginal — sometimes negative if origin stays slow.
OPcache stops recompiling PHP on every request — immediate CPU and latency gain. Misconfigured or disabled after deploy, it stays invisible until the next outage.
Too few PHP-FPM workers and requests queue; too many and RAM collapses. Here is how to calculate pm.max_children from real memory use, not a magic rule.
A TTFB above 600 ms is not automatically a hosting problem. Before upgrading, isolate DNS, cache, PHP and the database — the full chain, not just the symptom.
AMS-IX, telecom history, surveillance laws — the Dutch privacy reputation deserves a nuanced read: real connectivity, current legal framework, subcontracting.
Bare metal pricing, documentation, Datenschutz—the German market excels on measurable criteria—without claiming "German" equals absolute sovereignty.
OVH, o2switch, Infomaniak in francophone space—the French flag is not enough. Infra, support, compliance, and product criteria—beyond "made in France" marketing.
WordPress on shared hosting plus 4K videos on the same server equals guaranteed outage. Editorial site on one side, CDN or streaming on the other — architecture to clarify before the first upload.
Tight budget, volunteers, donation spikes: an association needs simplicity, backups and clear support — not just €2 shared hosting nobody knows how to run.
Black Friday, seller launch, ad campaign — average traffic lies. Auto-scale architecture, cache, queue, and hosting sized for peaks — not the median.
One shared database, growing customers: without early isolation (data, quotas, noise), multi-tenant becomes operational debt. Architecture and hosting to frame from v1.
Client logo, billing in your name—white label appeals to agencies, but support and upstream escalation remain the contract core. How to stay in control.
Reseller account, wholesale margin, client support on you—reselling hosting requires honest scope—not cloning the upstream host without its resources.
Reselling or including hosting can build loyalty — or turn the agency into 24/7 helpdesk. Scope, margin, runbook and contract limits for a sustainable offer.
99.9% availability, 5% credits — a hosting SLA is read in exclusions, measurement scope, and refund caps — not in the hero number.
A displayed SLA is worthless if nobody answers on Saturday. Concrete tests — ticket, technical scenario, language, escalation — before entrusting production to a host.