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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, 2026ALIAS is not a DNS record type — it is a vendor extension that disappears when you change providers. Here is what the standards actually forbid at the apex, how Cloudflare's CNAME flattening works instead, and the three failure modes that look like DNS issues but are not.
Sep 23, 2026Most Core Web Vitals advice is about fixing what broke. These are the decisions that are cheap now and expensive later — especially the one about reserved ad space.
Sep 23, 2026Custom domain setup looks like the same three steps everywhere. The apex domain is where the platforms quietly diverge — one uses a flattened CNAME, one asks for an A record, one tells you apex domains cannot use CNAME at all. Here is what each documents, and the error you get for skipping the association step.
Sep 23, 2026Git push to live site in under five minutes, with unlimited bandwidth and no bandwidth bill. The exact configuration, plus the four settings that silently break things later.
Sep 23, 2026Most email outages after a DNS change are caused by one setting: a record that handles mail sitting behind a proxy. Here are the rules that matter, the SPF lookup budget people exceed without knowing it, and the migration order that no provider documents.
Sep 23, 2026TTL is the only lever you control in a DNS change, and two facts about it are widely unknown: negative answers are cached too, with a TTL taken from a different field, and on a proxied record your TTL setting is ignored entirely. Here is how to prepare a change properly.
Sep 23, 2026DNSSEC is the one DNS feature where a configuration mistake takes your whole domain offline rather than degrading it. Here is what the DS record does, the order of operations that makes it safe, why it has no documented SEO benefit, and the record that solves a similar problem with far less risk.
Sep 23, 2026Hosts publish their limits and never publish what those limits mean in visitors, because the conversion depends on things they cannot know. Here are the seven limits that actually govern a shared plan, the error codes that tell you which one you hit, and a measurement procedure that answers the VPS question with evidence.
Sep 23, 2026Every platform documents where environment variables apply and how to encrypt them. None states plainly the consequence for a static site: anything available at build time is embedded in the output. Here is which variables are safe, which are not, and the two operational rules that catch people out.
Sep 23, 2026Ads are one of the biggest sources of layout shift on the web, and the fix has to be built into the template before your first ad loads. Here is how CLS is actually calculated, the four techniques that actually hold a slot, and the trade-off nobody publishes a number for.
Sep 23, 2026INP is not a measure of how fast your event handler runs. It has three documented phases, two of which happen outside your code — before your handler starts and after it finishes. Here is the mechanism, and the part of it that main-thread work you never associated with clicks quietly inflates.
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