Oracle Free Tier ARM Cutoff: What to Do Before Aug 18
Oracle halved its Always Free ARM allocation to 2 OCPU/12GB, enforced Aug 18, 2026. Here's the exact numbers, what's still ambiguous, and how to resize in time.
Hosting architecture, provider comparisons, and the economics of running infrastructure in the cloud. Including what AI demand is doing to VPS pricing right now.
Oracle halved its Always Free ARM allocation to 2 OCPU/12GB, enforced Aug 18, 2026. Here's the exact numbers, what's still ambiguous, and how to resize in time.
Build a production-grade monitoring stack with Prometheus and Grafana from scratch. Covers architecture, Docker Compose deployment, Node Exporter, alerting with Alertmanager, PromQL from basics to advanced, pre-built dashboards, and everything CoderOasis uses to monitor its own infrastructure.
CoderOasis runs Teleport internally for everything — admin panel access, secure database connections, Kubernetes, and zero-trust philosophy across our entire team. This is the complete technical guide to installing, configuring, and running your own self-hosted Teleport cluster from scratch.
How to Self-Host Your Own Email Server With Mailcow in 2026 — Complete Setup Guide Meta Description: Stop letting Google and Microsoft read your email. This guide sets up a complete private email server with Mailcow on a NetCup VPS — DNS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, TLS, webmail, and mobile clients.
Replace Google Drive, Google Photos, 1Password, Plex, and your document scanner with a self-hosted stack that runs on your hardware. Complete Docker Compose setup with Traefik, Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Immich, Jellyfin, and Paperless-ngx.
How AI infrastructure demand is driving up VPS and dedicated server costs — and why your hosting bill is going up even though you haven't changed anything.
A web server accepts HTTP requests and returns responses. Apache has been doing this since 1995. Nginx rebuilt the model in 2004 and took over the cloud. Here's how they work, how they differ, and how to pick between them.