Hosting & Self-host

Two well-documented clouds, judged on entry price, billing transparency, product range and trial terms — plus how to keep a low-cost VPS actually low-cost.

A step-by-step guide to running your own private Nextcloud server — from choosing hardware and an install method to securing it with HTTPS and keeping it maintained.

Open-source workspaces, wikis, and note tools you can run on your own server — and how to choose between them for data ownership, privacy, and cost control.

Everything you need to install, secure, and maintain a self-hosted Ghost publication on your own server — plus how to decide whether self-hosting is the right call.

Google Analytics 4 is free and powerful, but self-hosted tools like Matomo, Plausible, and Umami give you data ownership and a lighter privacy footprint. Here's how the two approaches actually differ — and how to pick.

A side-by-side look at two popular cloud hosts — Hetzner's low-cost VMs and dedicated servers versus DigitalOcean's broader managed-services platform — to help you match each to the right project.