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Colocated vs Dedicated vs Remote Servers: How to Choose the Right Hosting for Your Business Projects

Colocated vs Dedicated vs Remote Servers: How to Choose the Right Hosting for Your Business Projects

Aug 29, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Businesses have three main options for hosting servers off-premises: colocation, dedicated server hosting, and cloud (remote) hosting. In colocated hosting (colo), the customer owns the server hardware and simply rents space, power and network connectivity in a thirdparty data center. In this model, "you bring or ship your servers" to the provider's facility and lease rack space, power and bandwidthliquidweb.com. By contrast, dedicated hosting involves leasing an entire physical server from a provider.
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Cycle

Proxmox vs Cycle: Toolkit or Platform?

Aug 28, 2025 By Chris Aubuchon In Cycle
If you've ever run a homelab, chances are you've tried Proxmox. Its mix of open-source accessibility, strong VM support, and lightweight containers has made it popular among enthusiasts and small IT teams alike. Beyond hobby projects, Proxmox has also found adoption in organizations that value cost efficiency or wanted to avoid locking themselves into VMware's catalog. That adoption has seen some positive movement in the wake of Broadcom's changes to VMware's licensing and support model.
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gremlin

How to get fast, easy insights with the Gremlin MCP Server

Aug 28, 2025 By Gavin Cahill In Gremlin
Chaos Engineering and reliability testing give you visibility into the actual reliability of your services by simulating real-world failure conditions. But what if you could dig into the testing and results data using AI to quickly uncover new insights? That’s the logic behind the Gremlin MCP Server. Released as part of Reliability Intelligence, the Gremlin MCP Server allows you to bring your LLM of choice to explore your Gremlin data and find opportunities to get more out of Gremlin.
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rancher

Your favorite K8s free open-source application just sent you a five-figure invoice. Here's how to get more for less!

Aug 28, 2025 By François-Xavier "FX" Houard In Rancher
SUSE Rancher Prime delivers SUSE secure Application Collection and a complete Kubernetes platform, turning an industry crisis into your strategic upgrade.
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Automating Connectivity: The Future of Digital Infrastructure

Aug 28, 2025 By Megaport In Megaport
Connectivity powers our world, but the way it’s bought and sold is being transformed. In this episode of Uplink, Michael Reid talks with Ben Edmond, founder and CEO of Connectbase, about building a global marketplace for digital infrastructure. With 4.2 million quotes processed each month and 1.9 trillion rows of connectivity data, Connectbase is revolutionizing how providers and enterprises access real-time intelligence.
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Why open source might be the best move for ISVs

Aug 28, 2025 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical
Why do ISVs choose to partner with Canonical? Canonical’s promise to deliver secure, open source software empowers Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to focus on building and improving their products every day. We help vendors meet regulatory compliance, reduce their environmental footprint through containerization, and stay ready for the future.
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pulsant

We need to talk about HFC-227ea

Aug 28, 2025 By Helen Munro, Head of Environment & Sustainability In Pulsant
Data centres often hold the fluorinated gas (f-gas) HFC-227ea, traded under the name FM-200, as an emergency measure to stop fires in data halls and technical space without harming electrical equipment. Robust fire prevention helps avoid devastating human, operational, financial, and environmental consequences, but there’s a problem with this particular gas – if released, it has an immense global warming potential.
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last9

What is Database Monitoring

Aug 28, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Database monitoring transforms from a reactive troubleshooting exercise into a proactive optimization strategy when you have the right tools and approaches in place. This blog shares practical ways to choose monitoring solutions, set up observability for different database platforms, and design workflows that scale in modern distributed systems.
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You don't have to live with outages and late nights

Aug 28, 2025 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Outages don’t have to be part of your life and engineers don’t have to burn out being a hero. Spread out your effort and build reliability without the drama. Transcript:  You should be great at dealing with outages, but your customers don't care. There's no medals here. No one should have incentive to be paged. There's nothing good about being in a war room for 10 days or in the holiday season in 12 hour shifts around the clock just in case something happens.
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