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Pick the right type
Shared, VPS or cloud — a decision tree based on your project and skills.
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Where to start
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Check compliance
GDPR, HDS, SecNumCloud — what actually matters for your data.
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Migrate without stress
A checklist to switch hosts without downtime or nasty surprises.
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All guides
Guide
Combell for a Belgian store: align support, payments, and hosting
A Belgian store needs reliable hosting, nl/fr support, and a stack compatible with Mollie or Bancontact — Combell checks many boxes, provided perf and GDPR compliance align.
3 min read · Sep 7, 2026
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Guide
Cloud Temple: prepare a hosting case for a public-sector project
Cloud Temple targets trusted French cloud — not a €5 brochure site. A credible public case requires SecNumCloud/HDS scope, architecture, reversibility, and realistic budget.
3 min read · Sep 4, 2026
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Guide
Netcup: prepare a first German VPS without leaving it exposed
Netcup offers affordable VPS in Germany — great to learn, dangerous if SSH stays open and updates are forgotten. Checklist before the first public IP.
3 min read · Sep 1, 2026
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Guide
Navigating the IONOS catalogue without buying unnecessary options
IONOS stacks hosting, domain, email, MyWebsite, cloud, and security add-ons. The trap is not the entry price — it is the bill after three cross-sell clicks.
4 min read · Aug 29, 2026
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Technical
Retry failed emails without flooding the SMTP server
Retrying all failed emails at once after an SMTP outage guarantees a second incident — blacklist, rate limit and saturated mailboxes. The queue needs a backoff strategy.
3 min read · Aug 27, 2026
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Technical
Locking a cron job: avoid two identical runs at once
A cron that exceeds its interval, a deployment that restarts workers, DST handled badly — without a lock, you duplicate invoices, emails or imports without noticing.
4 min read · Aug 26, 2026
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Guide
Gandi for a small project: spot when it is time to change plans
Gandi suits small ethical projects — domain, mail, modest web hosting. Moving to VPS or cloud is decided on load, not the no-logs logo.
3 min read · Aug 25, 2026
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Technical
Elasticsearch: size indexing without stealing application RAM
Elasticsearch is hungry for heap and I/O. On a VPS shared with your app, a poorly tuned reindex can OOM-kill your PHP or Node process overnight.
3 min read · Aug 24, 2026
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Technical
Meilisearch: deploy fast search with a consistent backup
Meilisearch is light and quick to install — but snapshot backup and recovery need discipline many Docker deployments skip until the first index loss.
4 min read · Aug 24, 2026
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Technical
Proxy timeout: keep WebSockets from dropping after one minute
A chat, real-time dashboard or online game that disconnects every 60 seconds often points to a misconfigured proxy — not your WebSocket code.
4 min read · Aug 23, 2026
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Guide
o2switch for an agency: organize client sites without losing control
o2switch attracts agencies with unlimited resources and price — but multi-site, client access, and backups require clear governance from the first hosting.
3 min read · Aug 22, 2026
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Technical
QUIC and UDP: check the firewall before enabling HTTP/3
HTTP/3 runs on QUIC over UDP. If firewall or host blocks UDP 443, clients silently fall back to HTTP/2 — or fail without clear message.
3 min read · Aug 21, 2026
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Technical
TCP keepalive: retain useful connections without letting them die
Long-lived connections die silently when a NAT or load balancer cuts idle flows. TCP keepalive detects that — provided you do not confuse it with application heartbeats.
3 min read · Aug 20, 2026
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Technical
Network MTU: diagnose pages that fail for no visible reason
Some pages load on Wi-Fi but not on 4G, or stall after the first MB. Often the culprit is MTU or broken PMTUD — not your application.
3 min read · Aug 19, 2026
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Guide
Scaleway Object Storage: when to move media out of the web server
Images, video and PDFs bloat the web server and complicate backups. Scaleway Object Storage makes sense once media volume or traffic exceeds local disk comfort.
3 min read · Aug 19, 2026
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Technical
AAAA records: publish IPv6 without making the site unreachable
Adding an AAAA without checking the full stack can break access for some visitors. Here is how to enable IPv6 without timeouts or blank pages.
4 min read · Aug 18, 2026
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Technical
Vulnerable dependencies: handle alerts by actual exposure
A scanner reporting 200 CVEs does not tell you which ones touch your attack surface. Here is how to prioritise fixes by real exposure, not raw scores.
4 min read · Aug 17, 2026
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Technical
Content Security Policy: deploy a barrier without breaking the front end
A strict CSP header on Friday night and Stripe checkout vanishes: the XSS barrier only ships via report-only → enforce, with marketing in the loop.
4 min read · Aug 16, 2026
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Technical
CORS: fix browser access without opening the API to the world
CORS console error: not the API lock but browser policy — origin whitelist, OPTIONS preflight, and independent auth.
4 min read · Aug 15, 2026
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Guide
Getting started on Hetzner Cloud without underestimating administration
Hetzner Cloud offers excellent price-performance — provided you accept firewall, snapshots, updates and no managed support by default.
3 min read · Aug 15, 2026
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Technical
Certificate pinning: why a good intention can block a website
After Let's Encrypt renewal, the mobile app may stay offline: pinning on the old key without backup pin blocks the whole fleet.
5 min read · Aug 14, 2026
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Technical
Migrating a database: sequence schema, data, and traffic
Midnight cutover without schema/data parity: sequence expand/contract, sync and traffic — clone dry-run before prod window.
4 min read · Aug 13, 2026
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Guide
Infomaniak for a French SME: how to judge the offer beyond green messaging
Infomaniak appeals to French SMEs through documented ethics and ecology. But Swiss jurisdiction, no HDS and shared hosting limits require a cold read before migrating.
4 min read · Aug 12, 2026
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Technical
rsync: options that prevent a destructive synchronization
A reversed rsync cron wipes prod: trailing slash, --delete, and written SRC→DST direction prevent destructive sync.
4 min read · Aug 11, 2026
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Compliance
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- Included backups, retention and a tested restore.
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