Reading a Cloud Provider’s Terms Before You Build on Them
The acceptable use policy decides what you are allowed to run, and the data processing terms decide where it may live. Both are short, and both are worth reading before the build.
Cloud Basics
Plain explanations of the concepts behind cloud infrastructure – regions, vCPU, memory, storage types, uptime and account limits.
Account Age, Verification and Why New Cloud Accounts Are Limited
New cloud accounts start with low limits and heavier checks. Why providers do that, what it means for planning a launch, and how to raise limits the supported way.
What a 99.99% Uptime SLA Actually Promises
An SLA is a billing agreement, not an engineering guarantee. What the percentages translate to in minutes, what the credits are worth, and where real availability comes from.
Block, Object and File Storage: Which One Your Workload Wants
Three kinds of cloud storage that are not interchangeable. What each one is good at, what it costs you in practice, and the mistakes that come from picking the wrong one.
How Much RAM a Cloud Server Needs, and How to Tell
Memory is the resource that fails hardest when you underestimate it. How to size it from measurements instead of guesses, and what the symptoms of getting it wrong look like.
Cloud VPS vs Shared Hosting: What Actually Changes
The move from shared hosting to a cloud VPS changes who is responsible for the machine. What you gain, what you take on, and how to tell which one a project needs.
Cloud Regions and IP Location, Explained
Region decides latency, legal exposure and which services you can even switch on. IP location is a separate thing again — and conflating them causes real problems.
What vCPU Actually Means on a Cloud Account
A vCPU is not a CPU, and two accounts with the same vCPU number can perform very differently. Here is what the figure describes and how to size against it.