Handing Over a Cloud Account: A Checklist for Agencies and Teams
Cloud accounts outlive the people who created them. What to record, transfer and revoke so a handover does not become an archaeology project.
Account Setup
What to do in the first hours of owning a cloud account: SSH keys, firewalls, backups, monitoring, migration and handover.
Migrating a Workload Between Cloud Providers Without Downtime
Most of a provider migration is inventory and DNS, not servers. A sequence that keeps the old environment running until the new one has proven itself.
Monitoring a Cloud Server Without a Large Observability Stack
Four signals and three alerts will catch most of what goes wrong on a small deployment. What to watch, what to ignore, and how to keep alerts worth reading.
Firewall Rules for a New Cloud Server: The Minimum Safe Default
Two firewalls, one policy: deny everything, then open exactly what you serve. What belongs open, what never does, and why management ports are the whole game.
Snapshots vs Backups: What Each One Actually Protects
A snapshot is a fast copy of a disk in the same account. A backup is a tested, separated copy of your data. Conflating the two is how people lose everything at once.
SSH Keys and the First Login: Securing a New Cloud Server
A new public IP is scanned within minutes. The small set of changes that turns a default server into one that survives the internet, in the order they should be made.
Getting Started With a Kamatera Account: The First Hour
The setup that is quick now and awkward later: securing the login, spending alerts, region choice and first resource on Kamatera.
Getting Started With an UpCloud Account: The First Hour
The setup that is quick now and awkward later: securing the login, spending alerts, region choice and first resource on UpCloud.
Getting Started With a Hetzner Account: The First Hour
The setup that is quick now and awkward later: securing the login, spending alerts, region choice and first resource on Hetzner Online.
Getting Started With an Oracle Cloud Account: The First Hour
The setup that is quick now and awkward later: securing the login, spending alerts, region choice and first resource on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.