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Server Selection Basics: Shared Hosting, VPS, Cloud, and Dedicated Servers Compared

Cloud provider websites offer shared hosting, VPS, cloud servers, dedicated servers, and GPU servers, leaving buyers confused. This guide uses a three-step "traffic-budget-control" decision process to position you, explains what each of the five server types suits and their typical price ranges, and includes a decision flowchart and comparison table to answer "which server should I buy".

What to Do First on a New Server: A Basic Server Hardening Checklist

A freshly bought server is like a house with no locks: default passwords, open ports, and enabled root login are all entry points for attackers. This guide walks through six steps — updating the system, hardening SSH, firewalls, least privilege, logging, and backups — with a checklist a beginner can follow directly.

Vulnerability Scanning Basics: How to Find Vulnerabilities on Your Server

"Is my server secure?" Feelings are not evidence — scanning is. This guide explains what vulnerability scanning is, what port/service/dependency scans each check, how to use tools like Nmap, OpenVAS, and Trivy, and how to use CVSS scores to decide which vulnerability to fix first, with an intro workflow and frequency advice.

What to Monitor: A Three-Layer Metrics Checklist for Servers, Applications, and Business

A monitoring dashboard full of numbers raises one question: what should you actually watch? This guide divides metrics into three layers — server (CPU/memory/disk/bandwidth), application (rate/errors/latency), and business (conversion/registrations/orders) — with the meaning and typical alert thresholds for each, plus a ready-to-use metrics checklist table.