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VoIP DDoS Protection: Why SIP and RTP Need a Different Plan
SIP and RTP mostly run over UDP, and a web proxy can carry neither. Here is what network-level DDoS filtering stops, what it can't, the packet arithmetic of a G.711 call, and the SIP-aware controls (pike, ratelimit, fail2ban, ACLs) your own server still needs.
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Bring Your Own IP to a Dedicated Server: Your /24, Your ASN and What It Costs
Your own /24 keeps its reputation and allowlists when you change provider, but it needs a route object, an RPKI ROA, an abuse contact and, to qualify for your own ASN, a second upstream. What each step involves, and the 12- and 24-month costs against renting addresses.
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Dedicated Database Server Sizing: RAM First, Then Disks, Then Cores
Size a dedicated database server in the order the database uses it: memory for the working set, disks for commit latency, cores last. PostgreSQL and MySQL rules from the official docs, a worked 300 GB example, and which build fits at which price.
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Kubernetes Bare Metal: What the Cloud Did for You, and What You Must Bring
A managed Kubernetes service runs the control plane, the load balancers and the disks for you. On rented servers each becomes your job. Here is what the official docs say each piece needs, from etcd quorum to MetalLB and Longhorn, and what a three-server cluster costs.
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Private VPN Server: What Renting Your Own Actually Buys You
Renting your own VPN server buys a fixed exit IP for allowlists, remote access to your own networks and a tunnel you control. It does not buy anonymity or another region's streaming. Good and bad fits, transfer arithmetic for 4 TB against unmetered, ports and cost.
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ESXi Licensing on a Dedicated Server: What Licence You Need and Which CPUs Run ESXi 8 and 9
Want ESXi on a rented dedicated server? Broadcom sells VMware as subscriptions now, VVF and VCF counted per core with a 16-core minimum per CPU; the free ESXi 8 is non-production only, and Xeon E5 v4 stops at ESXi 8. Core counts for seven builds, from Broadcom's own docs.
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Storage Server RAID: Usable Capacity, TiB and What a Rebuild Costs You
Sixteen 20 TB disks are 320 TB raw, but RAID 6 leaves 280 TB and Linux shows 254.7 TiB. Usable capacity and price per TB for three storage server configurations, rebuild floors from drive datasheets, and why RAID 5 on big disks is a bad bet.
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Game Server DDoS Protection: Why a Web Proxy Won't Save a UDP Server
Most DDoS advice is written for websites, but game servers speak UDP or their own protocols, which no web proxy can carry. The ports Source, Rust, FiveM, Palworld and Minecraft use, the floods they attract, why Mpps matters more than Gbps, and when a VPS or a dedicated server fits.
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Windows VPS RDP: Licences, Sessions and Locking Down Port 3389
Before you rent a Windows VPS for Remote Desktop: when two admin sessions stop being enough and RDS licences start, what the licensed and BYOD images mean, how many users each plan can carry by Microsoft's own sizing, and five steps that keep port 3389 shut.
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Blockchain Node Server: Hardware That Keeps Up With the Chain
Ethereum wants NVMe, Solana wants a 2.8 GHz base clock and 256 GB of RAM, and Bitcoin Core asks for far less. We map each project's published hardware requirements, as of 12 October 2026, to real dedicated builds, with the bandwidth arithmetic shown.
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Gbps vs Mpps: How to Read a DDoS Protection Spec
A good DDoS protection spec has two numbers, Gbps and Mpps, and small-packet floods usually exhaust the second one first. The Ethernet arithmetic that converts one into the other, how to tell which limit a tier reaches first, where Layer 7 requests fit, and what to ask a provider.
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Unmetered VPS Netherlands: What a 1 Gbps Port Moves and What It Costs
An unmetered VPS has no transfer quota, but the port is still a limit. What a 1 Gbps port moves in a month, the traffic level at which each UNEX plan beats its metered NEX twin, what 2 and 4 Gbps ports cost, and the workloads that belong on a dedicated server instead.
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Bare Metal vs Cloud: Pricing the Same Server Both Ways
We priced one steady workload both ways in Frankfurt: a 24-core EPYC 9254 dedicated server at €449 a month against the closest AWS m7a instance, with storage, a one-year Savings Plan and internet egress added. The arithmetic is shown, including where the cloud honestly wins.
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Server Under DDoS Attack? What to Do in the First Hour
A first-hour runbook for a Linux server under attack: how to rule out a bad deploy or a crawler, the commands that show which layer is failing, what SYN cookies, nftables and rate limits can fix, what only your provider can, and what to ask about null routing.
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Multi-Region Dedicated Servers: Cities, Latency and Replication
A second region turns an outage into a failover and puts capacity near distant users, but the distance between cities sets hard rules for replication. Round-trip floors for ten city pairs, synchronous versus asynchronous, three designs that work, and what two or three regions cost.
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Streaming Dedicated Server: Sizing the Port From Published Bit Rates
For video delivery, the port, not the processor, usually sets the budget. Apple's published bit-rate ladder turned into concurrent viewers per port, the three jobs a streaming server does, live versus on demand, and the signs that one server is no longer enough.
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20Gbps Dedicated Server: Cost, Bonding and Bottlenecks
Twenty gigabits is where the details of delivery start to matter: one interface or two bonded links, disks that can keep up with 2.5 GB/s, and TCP windows that cap a single connection. What a 20Gbps port moves, what it costs on each build, and how to make sure you get all of it.
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Rent a Dedicated Server: What the Monthly Price Covers
Renting a dedicated server bundles hardware, power, network and IP addresses into one monthly price. What that price covers and what it leaves out, how billing periods, notice and refunds really work, a worksheet for comparing rent with owning, and a checklist to run before you sign.
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Frankfurt Dedicated Server: DE-CIX, Latency and Who It Suits
Frankfurt is Europe's centre of gravity for hosting: over 1,000 networks on DE-CIX Frankfurt and short distances to Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Central Europe. Distances against Amsterdam, the audiences Frankfurt serves badly, and every build you can order there.
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1Gbps Unmetered Dedicated Server: What the Port Really Delivers
"1 Gbps unmetered" hides three questions: how much data the port can really move, whether the gigabit is yours or shared, and what the next step costs. The arithmetic for each, from TCP overhead to concurrent video streams to the price per terabyte at every Xeon port size.
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Amsterdam Dedicated Server: Peering, Latency and Who It Suits
Amsterdam is often the first answer for European hosting, for measurable reasons: 853 networks on AMS-IX and short distances to London, the Benelux and southern Scandinavia. The numbers behind that, the audiences Amsterdam serves badly, and every build you can order there today.
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Proxmox Dedicated Server: Sizing a Host to Replace VMware
VMware now licenses every physical core, with a 16-core minimum per CPU; Proxmox VE subscriptions are priced per socket. What that difference does on a 256-core host, how to size RAM and ZFS storage for a Proxmox host, and which dedicated builds fit which estate.
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Self-Hosted DDoS Protection: Run Your Own Proxy or Buy a Managed One?
A proxy licence on your own dedicated server gives you unlimited domains, TLS keys on your own hardware and a cost that does not grow with traffic. It also makes you the operator. The real costs of both routes, and the one thing no self-hosted proxy can do alone.
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100Gbps Dedicated Server: Who Needs One, and What It Takes to Fill It
A 100Gbps port moves 45 TB an hour. Who genuinely needs that, which server builds can carry it, what it costs per gigabit compared with slower ports, and the four bottlenecks, from the network card to packets per second, that stop most servers short of line rate.
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