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Building a "Self-hosted" system to replace Google Workspace on VPS

Guide to combining a range of applications such as Nextcloud (Storage), Vaultwarden (Password Management), Appflowy (Notes/Notation alternative), and Plausible (Web Analytics) on a VPS cluster to completely control personal/business data

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Deploying dedicated Game servers (Minecraft, Palworld, CS2): Optimizing Latency and Tick-rate

In-depth analysis of Game Server specific parameters such as optimizing single-core CPUs, setting up dedicated UDP caching and DDoS protection for games to ensure the smoothest player experience.

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FinOps for VPS: Strategies for Cost Optimization and Multi-Platform Resource Management

A topic focused on administration and business. How to analyze invoices, use tools to detect unused "junk" VPS, and techniques for right-sizing configurations to save at least 30% on monthly costs when operating large systems.

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Building a Private Tunneling Server (FRP/Chisel) to Publicize Services from Local to the Internet

A solution for accessing servers located at home (behind NAT/Modem) via a VPS with a static IP. This is an extremely popular technique for those working in home labs but wanting to demo products to clients.

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Centralized Logging with Grafana Loki and Promtail

The previous list included Prometheus (parameter monitoring), but it lacked log monitoring. This topic guides you on how to push all logs from applications, Nginx, and systems to one place for quick retrieval, like Google Search, when errors occur.

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Optimizing your VPS for large-scale web scraping and proxy system management

Techniques for configuring VPS to run tools like Playwright/Puppeteer, managing IP rotation, and optimizing resources for scraping data without your VPS provider locking your account due to bandwidth overload.

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Setting up a high-performance graphical Cloud Workstation environment with Kasm Workspaces

Transforming your VPS into a browser-based virtual machine or Linux desktop accessible directly via the web. This is very useful for secure anonymous browsing or remote work in isolated environments.

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Building a Centralized Intrusion Detection System (IDS/IPS) and SIEM with Wazuh

Upgrading security to an enterprise level. Beyond firewalls and kernel hardening, this topic guides you through installing Wazuh to monitor suspicious activity, detect brute force attacks, and centrally manage security logs from multiple VPS instances into a single dashboard.

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Fleet Management - Automated Management and Configuration of Multiple VPS Servers with Ansible

Instead of using APIs for initialization (like Terraform, which is already on your list), this topic delves into post-creation configuration. Learn how to write playbooks to install software and update security patches simultaneously on 100 VPS servers with just one command.

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Deploying and Operating Local LLM (AI) on VPS with Ollama and Open WebUI

This topic focuses on the AI wave. It guides you on how to leverage VPS (especially those with optimized GPUs or CPUs) to self-host large programming language models like Llama 3 and Mistral, ensuring absolute data security instead of using the ChatGPT API.

6 minutes read

Set up a powerful Remote Development environment (VS Code Server) on your VPS

How to turn your VPS into a remote programming machine. You can code from your iPad or a low-end computer via a web browser, leveraging the processing power of the VPS behind it.

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Use Terraform to automatically initialize your VPS infrastructure (Infrastructure as Code)

Instead of using manual APIs, use the Terraform declaration language to define the entire server configuration. With just one command, the system automatically creates the VPS, firewall, and network on the provider.

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