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• Take back control of your data on a VPS — Self-hosting on a VPS against SaaS lock-in — without fantasizing about zero cloud.
• Understanding fixed RAM cloud billing — Essential €5, Pro €20, Unlimited €40 — billed on total RAM.
• How our Anti-DDoS protection works — AS219084: DPDK scrubbing, FlowSpec, no systematic blackhole.
• How much RAM for your game server? — Ranges for Minecraft, Rust, CS2, FiveM without overpaying.
• Understanding latency: ping, routes and PoPs — Why 20 ms vs 80 ms changes the game feel.
• Brussels + PoPs: where your instances run — Transparency: datacenter vs points of presence.
• Commercial VPN myths — What a VPN really does — and what it never will.
• Password managers: 2026 criteria — Local, sync, open source and Vaultwarden option.
• Tor: realistic basics without fantasies — Relative anonymity, exit nodes and good uses.
• Signal vs SMS: why the channel matters — Metadata, encryption and team habits.
• Open source alternatives to everyday SaaS — Notes, drive, automation to repatriate on a VPS.
• Docker homelab… on a VPS (and why) — When the Pi at home is no longer enough.
• CVE hygiene for busy admins — Filter noise, patch fast, document.
• Bitwarden cloud vs Vaultwarden self-host — Trade-offs of trust, ops and features.
• Browser extensions: ignored attack surface — Permissions, supply chain and hygiene.
• 2FA: TOTP and hardware keys — SMS, TOTP, WebAuthn — preference order.
• journalctl: read logs without pain — Filters: unit, since and priorities.
• Intro to SSH certificates — SSH CA for fleets and revocation.
• Rootless containers: benefits and limits — Security vs friction of rootless Docker.
• DNS privacy: DoH, DoT and resolvers — Who sees your DNS queries and how to shrink the leak.
• Self-hosting mail: the pitfalls — Deliverability, abuse and DNS — the final boss.
• Fail2ban: useful, not a fortress — What it blocks and what it misses.
• Update Docker images without stress — Tags, changelogs and rollback.
• Least privilege on Linux: concrete habits — Users, capabilities and sudoers.
• The only backup that counts: the one you restore — Restore drills and success criteria.
• Secure admin panels (Pterodactyl, etc.) — HTTPS, 2FA, minimal exposure.
• WireGuard vs OpenVPN in 2026 — Perf, simplicity and ecosystem.
• Self-host photos: Immich and storage realities — Thumbs, backups and bandwidth.
• Your VPS is scanned within minutes — Internet noise, ports and accidental honeypots.
• Which server distro in 2026? — Debian, Ubuntu LTS, Rocky — pragmatic criteria.
• Never commit secrets — Git history, rotation and pre-commit.
• Useful HTTP security headers — Lean CSP, HSTS and frame options.
• Nginx rate limiting against abuse — limit_req, zones and false positives.
• Kernel reboots: schedule without surprises — needrestart, windows and 24/7 games.
• Minimal observability on a single VPS — Logs + metrics + uptime without a factory.
• Disk encryption on a VPS: useful or theater? — Real threats vs LUKS complexity.
• Phishing aimed at infra admins — Fake panels, fake tickets, MFA fatigue.
• Ansible for 2 to 10 VPS — Simple inventory and short playbooks.
• Passkeys / WebAuthn: what changes — Phishing resistance and access backups.
• npm/pip supply chain: simple moves — Lockfiles, pins and review.
• Private networks for a Docker lab — No exposure, VPN for admin.
• The danger of copy-pasting blog commands — curl|bash, invisible characters, context.
• Filter egress traffic — Limit C2 and accidental exfiltration.
• restic vs Borg: which to pick? — UX, backends and perf — the best is the one you automate.
• Pi-hole: what it will not do — Not an antivirus, not a VPN, not magic.
• Nextcloud vs SaaS drive: the real math — Cost, control and admin time.
• Harden /tmp: noexec and nosuid — Simple moves against dropped payloads.
• VPS vs shared hosting in 2026 — When to leave shared hosting for a VPS.
• Why NVMe changes the VPS experience — IOPS, databases and game panels.
• Multiple instances under one RAM plan — Site + bot + game on Essential/Pro.
• Windows VPS: realistic use cases — RDP, line-of-business apps, not a laptop substitute.
• Essential or Pro: how to decide — Concrete signals to upgrade.
• Anti-DDoS and UDP games: what to know — Why public lists attract floods.
• Launch a Minecraft community without chaos — Rules, staff, backups and wipe comms.
• Rust wipe checklist for admins — Before, during, after the wipe.
• ESX vs QBCore: choose without dogma — Ecosystem, perf and maintenance.
• CS2 tickrate: CPU realism — Higher is not always playable.
• When to move to a Minecraft proxy — One world vs lobby/minigame network.
• France → Brussels latency: what to expect — Ballpark figures and reading MTR.
• BGP FlowSpec explained simply — How filters are pushed during an attack.
• How to read a Looking Glass — Ping, traceroute, MTR: useful signals.
• IPv6 and game servers: state of play — Dual-stack, clients and lists.
• Anycast vs unicast: a simple idea — What it changes for perceived latency.
• Weekly security checklist for a VPS — 15 minutes that prevent incidents.
• Server passwords: still necessary? — SSH keys, app secrets and vaults.
• WAF vs Anti-DDoS: two different layers — Do not confuse network floods and HTTP injection.
• Docker socket: why it is dangerous — Mounting /var/run/docker.sock ≈ root.
• Mini incident plan for a solo VPS — Isolate, preserve, rebuild.
• The hidden cost of self-hosting — Time, vigilance and bus factor.
• Which first service to self-host? — Vault, bookmarks, automations.
• Compose checklist before production — Restart policies, healthchecks, pins.
• Homelab vs prod on the same VPS — Isolation and risks.
• Back up Docker volumes correctly — What lives in the volume vs what is ephemeral.
• Cloud-init mental model: the first minutes — What happens after provisioning.
• Estimate RAM for a Docker stack — Sum of services + OS headroom.
• Game panel vs manual install — When the template saves time.
• Communicate a game server maintenance — Discord, timelines and rollback.
• Choose a game server location — FR/BE/EU players and Brussels.
• Optimize your cloud plan cost — Without breaking prod.
• SLA and responsibilities: a mental model — Host network vs customer OS.
• DNS migration: TTL and cutover — Lower TTL before go-live day.
• Monitor from the outside — Uptime as users see it, not only htop.
• Why Brussels for EU hosting — Peering, Western-EU latency, transparency.
• Containers vs VMs on a VPS — Density, isolation and simplicity.
• GitOps light on a solo VPS — Repo = truth, reproducible deploy.
• VPS benchmarks: reading between the lines — Synthetic vs real load.
• Write an effective support ticket — Symptoms, timeline, changes.
• When to migrate to 1VPS — Technical and budget signals.
• RAM overcommit myths — What your plan really guarantees.
• Logs and retention: privacy hygiene — What you keep, why, and how long.
• SSH agent forwarding: risks — Handy, but dangerous on untrusted hosts.
• Modern TLS versions for your vhosts — TLS 1.2+ and ending obsolete suites.
• Game server backup frequency — Before wipe, before update, every night.
• Discord bots: respect API limits — 429s, intents and stable hosting.
• Nginx caching for static assets — expires, etags and HTML pitfalls.
• Too many Postgres connections — PgBouncer and RAM budgets.
• Simple DNS failover (and its limits) — TTL, healthchecks and RTO realism during a DNS cutover.
• Internal status page for your team — Uptime Kuma + Discord channel.
• Capacity planning for a game launch — Slots, RAM and opening peaks.
• Learn Linux on a real VPS — Throwaway sandbox, mental snapshots.