Swap is the most misunderstood resource on a small VPS. Configured correctly, it is a safety net that prevents the OOM killer from terminating your database during a traffic spike….
Read MoreNginx Tuning for a Small VPS: Worker Processes, Buffers, and Timeouts That Matter
On a 1–2 vCPU, 1–2 GB VPS, the default nginx configuration wastes memory and lets slow clients tie up workers that should be serving real traffic. The good news: a…
Read MoreHow to Enable HTTP/3 and QUIC on Nginx and Caddy
HTTP/3 runs over QUIC, a UDP-based transport with TLS 1.3 built in. The payoff for your visitors is concrete: connection setup takes one round trip instead of two, repeat visits…
Read MoreVPS Performance Tuning: 12 Settings Worth Checking in 2026
Most VPS plans arrive with kernel and application defaults tuned for a generic workload. On a small test box the defaults are fine; once real traffic arrives, a dozen small…
Read MoreNginx vs Apache on a VPS: Performance, Memory Use, and Config Compared
On a 2 GB VPS the choice between Nginx and Apache is often a memory decision before it is a feature decision. In our load tests, Apache’s default prefork MPM…
Read MoreVPS Disk I/O Tuning: Filesystem Choices, Mount Options, and fio Benchmarks
On a VPS, disk I/O is usually the first performance wall you hit. CPU and RAM are easy to reason about, but storage performance depends on the host’s hardware, the…
Read MoreMonitoring with Prometheus and Grafana on a VPS: Metrics Collection for Small Deployments
You do not need a commercial monitoring platform to keep an eye on a small VPS. Prometheus and Grafana together form a complete, self-hosted metrics stack: Prometheus scrapes and stores…
Read MoreVPS Swap Space: How Much You Need and How to Tune Swappiness
Swap is disk space the kernel uses when physical RAM is full — an emergency reservoir that prevents the OOM killer from terminating your processes. Used well, swap saves a…
Read MoreNginx FastCGI Cache and Microcaching on a VPS: Configs for Dynamic Sites
Every PHP request on a typical WordPress or Laravel VPS spends 100–300 ms in PHP-FPM even when the rendered page barely changes. Nginx’s fastcgi_cache stores the finished HTML and serves…
Read MoreDocker Resource Limits and cgroup Tuning on a VPS: Keep One Container from Starving the Host
Containers on a VPS share the host kernel — and the host’s CPU, memory, and I/O. The classic failure mode: a single container with a memory leak or a runaway…
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