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95th Percentile Bandwidth Billing, Explained With the Arithmetic
Two servers move the same 25.4 TB in a month. One is billed for 50 Mbps, the other for 900 Mbps, and neither invoice is wrong. How the five-minute samples work, where the 36-hour cliff sits, and how to tell which billing model fits the shape of your traffic.
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Migrate a Server Without Downtime: The Runbook, and the New EU Rules
Zero downtime is a claim about your database, not your files. The runbook in the order the clock imposes — TTL two weeks out, two rsync passes, replication versus a read-only window — plus what Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 now obliges your outgoing provider to do.
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Black Friday Hosting: The Capacity Plan That Starts in September
Black Friday falls on 27 November 2026, and almost every decision that matters has a lead time attached. A week-by-week plan with real dates, the platform version requirements to check first, and the two documentation traps that take stores down in November.
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How Much Bandwidth Does a Server Need? Do the Arithmetic
Most websites never come close to saturating the cheapest port on the market. Six worked examples — from a brochure site to a 400 TB game patch — showing how to size monthly transfer and peak throughput, and which of the two ceilings your workload actually hits first.
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Managed vs Unmanaged Server Hosting: Pricing the Hours, Not the Invoice
The managed versus unmanaged decision is usually framed as a budget question, and that framing is wrong in a specific way. Unmanaged is not cheaper; it is differently priced. The cost moves from an invoice to a calendar, and calendars are harder to read.
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Choosing a European Server Location: Physics, Peering and Jurisdiction
Server location is usually decided by habit — Frankfurt or Amsterdam, because that is where everyone puts things. Habit is not a bad default, just rarely examined. Here is the decision made on evidence: physics, interconnection data, and what actually decides it.
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Unmetered Bandwidth vs Metered: Working Out Which Is Cheaper
Unmetered is one of the most-abused words in hosting and one of the most useful when a provider means it. The confusion is worth clearing up with arithmetic, because transfer is usually the largest variable line on an invoice and invisible until it is not.
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WordPress Hosting Requirements and the Signs You Have Outgrown Shared
WordPress runs on almost anything, which is why its requirements get ignored. The official floor has moved a long way, and many live sites are below it without anyone noticing. Here is the current list, and the signals that a site has outgrown shared hosting.
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Backup Storage Cost: Flat Quota or Metered Object Storage?
Two shapes of backup storage exist and they are priced on different axes: a fixed quota for a fixed figure, or per-gigabyte elasticity with transfer metered separately. Both are legitimate. Here is the arithmetic, with the assumptions named.
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Magento 2 Hosting Requirements: The Version Matrix That Decides Upgrades
Magento is the heaviest mainstream ecommerce platform you can self-host, and its requirements list is the reason. It is PHP, a database, a search engine, a cache, a broker and a reverse proxy, each with a matrix that moves every release. Here is all of it.
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AI Agent Hosting Requirements: Sizing a Server for OpenClaw
An agent is not a chatbot with extra features. It runs a loop, holds state, and acts on a schedule whether or not anyone is watching. That difference is the whole infrastructure question, and it is why running one on a laptop stops working in about a week.
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Reseller Hosting Margins: The Arithmetic Nobody Publishes
Most guides explain what reseller hosting is and stop. The interesting question is whether the arithmetic works at your scale. Here are the per-account costs written out, plus the operational costs that never appear in a comparison table and decide the margin.
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OpenCart Hosting Requirements: What the Official Docs Get Wrong
OpenCart's requirements page is short, which is usually a good sign and here is not. Read it carefully and two of the four required PHP settings have not existed since 2012. Here is the list as published, what is wrong with it, and the sizing work it never attempts.
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Offsite Backup Storage: Sizing and Costing the Third Copy
Every backup plan reaches the same awkward question: where does the copy that survives this building live, and what does it cost to keep? A sizing and costing guide for the third copy, with the arithmetic written out and the restore-cost trap named.
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PrestaShop Hosting Requirements: Sizing a Server for PrestaShop 8 and 9
PrestaShop's official requirements tell you what will install, not what will hold up when a newsletter lands on a Tuesday morning. Both are here: the verbatim requirements including the PHP compatibility chart most upgrades trip over, then the sizing work the docs do not attempt.
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Storage Server or Storage VPS? Sizing Bulk Storage for Backups, Media and Archives
“We need more storage” hides four different problems that need four different machines. Work out which one you have, then size against usable capacity rather than raw — and against the restore you hope never to run.
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NIS2 and Your Hosting Provider: What Directive (EU) 2022/2555 Actually Requires
Most NIS2 material implies you can buy compliance and never says what the Directive requires. This is the version with the article numbers in it — scope, the ten Article 21 measures, Article 23's 24-hour clock, Article 34 fines, and seven questions to put to a hosting provider in writing.
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Vienna or Sofia? Two Different Answers to Central and South-East European Hosting
“Eastern Europe” hides at least three different network markets. Vienna and Sofia get confused with each other constantly, and they answer different questions — one is DACH-adjacent with eastward routes, the other aggregates the Balkans. Peering data, distances and a side-by-side table.
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Ashburn Dedicated Servers: When European Teams Should Put Capacity in Northern Virginia
A quarter of your traffic is North American and someone asks whether the servers should follow. This is the analysis that shortens the argument: the physics floor on transatlantic latency, why Ashburn specifically, the GDPR transfer position today, and what two regions actually cost to run.
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Dublin Dedicated Servers in 2026: Transatlantic Reach and the Grid Reality
Ireland is the one European hosting market where the first question is about electricity, not latency. Four years of effectively frozen capacity ended in December 2025 — here is what the CRU framework means if you are renting rather than building, and what Dublin's network position actually is.
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Milan and Marseille: Southern Europe's Two Network Gravity Wells
Southern Europe is usually treated as a latency problem to be solved from Frankfurt. It has two network gravity wells of its own, and they do different jobs — Milan exchanges Italian traffic, Marseille lands intercontinental cable. Choosing correctly starts with knowing which one you need.
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Warsaw Dedicated Servers: What Poland Gives You That Frankfurt Doesn't
Warsaw is not the thin regional market most European hosting plans assume it is: four exchange platforms, the largest recording more connected networks than DE-CIX Madrid. Here is what that buys you, when it does not, and how to check it before you commit.
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Madrid or Frankfurt? Choosing a Server Location for Iberian and Latin American Traffic
Frankfurt is the European default for good reason, but it is not the right answer for every audience. This is the network case for Madrid — measured peering data, the EllaLink route to Brazil, and a decision table for when Spain beats a German deployment.
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Website DDoS Protection: Practical Guide for Ecommerce, SaaS, and High-Traffic Sites
Learn how DDoS protected web hosting helps ecommerce, SaaS, gaming, and high-traffic websites stay reachable during malicious traffic spikes. This guide explains how to choose the right mitigation setup, bandwidth, uptime protection, server resources, and scaling strategy without overpaying.
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