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infra thoughts from a fellow indie vibe coder

• AWS Pricing Pages Are Psychological Warfare

  May 23, 2026 · 5 min read

  Egress fees, 47 dropdown menus, and the $2,700 surprise bill. Why dedicated servers beat cloud for side projects.

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• Stop Buying VPS, Start Buying Dedi

  March 15, 2026 · 5 min read

  The math that convinced me: 16 cores and 32GB for $60/mo beats 4 cores and 8GB for $48/mo every time.

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• DDoS'd for 6 Hours and What I Learned

  February 10, 2026 · 4 min read

  3 AM panic, iptables whack-a-mole, and why getting attacked is a weird badge of honor.

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• The $50/mo Server That Outruns My Day Job Laptop

  January 18, 2026 · 5 min read

  Benchmarks prove the server destroys my "pro" laptop on sustained workloads. The laptop is a space heater.

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• Why I Don't Use cPanel

  December 5, 2025 · 5 min read

  If you can't fix it with a terminal, you don't understand your server. Plus a 5-command nginx tutorial.

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• OVH vs Hetzner vs Someone You've Never Heard Of

  October 28, 2025 · 6 min read

  The big names vs the wild west. No perfect provider — just the one that fits your current level of stress.

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• My First Month Running a Dedi

  September 15, 2025 · 4 min read

  SSH keys, fail2ban, and the gaslighting of VPS resource monitors. Lessons from going bare metal.

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• vibehost Gets Its Own First Dedi

  September 3, 2025 · 3 min read

  We ate our own dogfood. Here's how it went.

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• Why I'm Building vibehost

  August 20, 2025 · 3 min read

  Cloud and VPS hosting offers are a zoo. Dedicated servers sit in a secret sweet spot.

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