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What is the real difference between shared hosting and VPS, which projects live comfortably on a "shared", when VPS gives a noticeable increase in speed and stability, how not to overpay for "power", and what signals will tell you that it's time to migrate
A long, practical DDoS guide: what baseline network-layer mitigation we provide, how traffic scrubbing helps against L3/L4 attacks, why L7 is the hardest layer, how to set up Cloudflare properly (hide origin, WAF, rate limiting, challenge), and how Nginx/app hardening keeps sites responsive during HTTP floods.
Where to get a MonoPay token, how to create the first invoice, make a test payment, connect a webhook and check the signature, correctly update order statuses. How "Purchase in installments" works, HMAC signature and finalization of the deal. With practical code examples (PHP/Laravel/cURL).
We understand what VPS is and why cloud VPS is more convenient for most sites and services: virtualization technologies (KVM, LXC/OpenVZ, Xen, VMware), choice of OS (AlmaLinux, CentOS Stream, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu), locations (USA, Germany, Finland), vps for the site, and comparison with dedicated servers
What is the real difference between shared hosting and VPS, which projects live comfortably on a "shared", when VPS gives a noticeable increase in speed and stability, how not to overpay for "power", and what signals will tell you that it's time to migrate
A guide on how to formulate requests to ChatGPT and other AIs: what to write in the prompt, how to set the context and format, why "do cool" doesn't work, how to get texts, code and plans, and what to do if the answer turned out to be weak
A detailed, human-friendly rewrite explaining QUIC and HTTP/3: why TCP is still essential, where it slows modern websites down, how QUIC improves smoothness on mobile networks, and how to enable and verify HTTP/3 via server hosting or a CDN.
A long, practical guide to S3-compatible object storage: how it works, how it differs from file and block storage, when S3 beats FTP/Drive/NAS, and how to use it for safe, scalable storage and backups you can actually restore.
A practical long-form guide to backing up websites and databases to S3: WordPress/Laravel/static workflows, MySQL & PostgreSQL dumps with encryption and retention, a clean 3-2-1 strategy without overkill, rclone as “cloud disk” + sync, Borg/Restic deduplication and fast incrementals, and how to enable S3 versioning without paying for junk.
A long, practical DDoS guide: what baseline network-layer mitigation we provide, how traffic scrubbing helps against L3/L4 attacks, why L7 is the hardest layer, how to set up Cloudflare properly (hide origin, WAF, rate limiting, challenge), and how Nginx/app hardening keeps sites responsive during HTTP floods.
A long-form, story-driven guide on sourcing visuals legally and efficiently: what CC0/CC BY mean, when model releases matter, how to optimize images for speed, and which free stock platforms are worth using in real projects.
A practical, human-readable guide to combine Mailgun API for transactional sending with a FastPanel mail server for real mailboxes and inbound delivery. Includes DNS (MX/SPF/DKIM/DMARC), PTR, testing, and the exact fix for Gmail 550 5.7.26 unauthenticated sender.