A Local LLM on a $9 VPS: 9 Tokens a Second, No Matter How Many Users
Ollama on a CPU-only 2 vCPU server: 8.7 tokens per second, throughput flat under concurrency, 12 GB of disk, and double the response time on the five sites sharing the machine.
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Ghost vs WordPress on One VPS: The Speed Gap Is Page Weight, Not the Engine
Same server, same MySQL, same article injected into both. Ghost served 3.1x more requests uncached — and generated HTML at the same rate, because its page was 3.4x smaller.
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Cloudways vs Hostinger VPS for Self-Hosted Web Apps: The 52-Minute Decision
Cloudways Medium is $54 a month for 4 GB and 2 vCPU; a Hostinger KVM2-class VPS is around $9 for 8 GB. The decision is labour, not hardware: the price gap buys 52 minutes of your month. With measured VPS benchmarks showing a 40x spread from caching alone, and a protocol for benchmarking any host yourself.
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Best Open-Source and Self-Hosted Alternatives to Calendly: Cal.com vs Easy!Appointments, Benchmarked
Both deployed on a live VPS under identical 1 vCPU limits. Cal.com idled at 1.05 GB of RAM with an 8.05 GB image; Easy!Appointments at 27 MB and 877 MB. Includes the reverse-proxy rate-limiter trap that returns 429 to every visitor, and its verified one-line fix.
