Deployment, DNS and edge performance notes come from running this site: one Astro build, one Cloudflare zone, one pipeline, reported as it happened. Hosting-plan analysis comes from the providers’ own documentation and pricing pages, quoted directly — and every article ends with the sources you need in order to check it.
32 guides across 6 topics.
Shared, managed and cloud hosting compared on renewal pricing and published resource limits.
6 guides Self-hosted AIAgents and local models on a machine you actually own.
4 guides Domains & DNSRegistrars, DNS records and email setup that actually work.
5 guides DeploymentStatic sites, CI pipelines and edge platforms, step by step.
6 guides PerformanceCore Web Vitals, caching and cost per thousand visits.
6 guides ToolsSelf-hosted software and utilities worth your time.
5 guidesFour pieces that answer the questions this site gets asked most.
An always-on agent and a local model are different workloads whose memory floors differ by roughly a factor of eight, and both numbers are published. What the agent projects say about their own footprint, how to compute a model's floor from its file size, and the order to size things in so you do not buy the machine twice.
Oct 30, 2026A rented server is not an always-on agent. Three settings stand between "it runs while I am logged in" and "it answers at three in the morning", and each one is documented by the projects that need it — plus the reboot test that catches the ones you missed.
Oct 30, 2026"No token fees" is a pricing headline, not a cost. Running the model yourself moves spend from a per-token invoice to four other lines — capacity, idle time, context you forgot to count, and your own hours — and only one of them appears on a receipt.
Oct 30, 2026Muse is a personal agent on a machine you never see. Its terms settle what you own — and the rest is four ordinary pieces: a host, a channel, a scheduler and memory on disk. Each of them is documented by open projects, including the one setting that does not survive the rebuild unchanged.
Oct 30, 2026Two machines at the same price can be very different machines, and the difference shows up in five counters that the kernel already publishes. What each one means, which column people misread, and how to build a baseline instead of trusting a number you found in a blog post.
Oct 29, 2026Every Muse account comes with a dedicated Ubuntu machine in Meta's cloud, and the 'free VPS' framing has travelled further than the terms have. The governing document never mentions hosting, promises no uptime, and reserves the right to remove anything you build on it at any time for any reason.
Oct 29, 2026Every free tier advertises the same thing — zero. What differs is how it ends, and that is decided by the business model behind it, not by how generous the vendor feels. Three failure modes, each with the official sentence that authorises it.
Oct 29, 2026A static site looks like it needs no backup because the files are reproducible. The reproducible part is true and incomplete — the things you cannot rebuild from source are the DNS zone, the platform configuration, and the secrets, and all three live only in a dashboard.
Sep 23, 2026Static hosting is sold as unmetered, and the platforms meter three different things under that headline. Some count bytes, some count requests, some count neither — and a site that is cheap on one model can be expensive on another. Here is the accounting, and the formula.
Sep 23, 2026