Hardware & Datacenter
What is inside a server and a datacenter: CPUs, RAM, NVMe, RAID, racks, power and cooling.
Hardware & Datacenter
NVMe VPS vs SSD VPS: Does Storage Speed Really Matter?
What separates an NVMe VPS from a SATA SSD one, which workloads notice the difference, and how to measure your own server with fio, ioping and iostat.
Hardware & Datacenter
ECC RAM: What It Is and Why Servers Use It
How error-correcting memory detects and fixes bit flips, why they happen more than you would think, what it costs, and how to check a server has it.
Hardware & Datacenter
RAID Levels Explained: 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10 for Servers
What each RAID level does with your drives, how much capacity and failure tolerance you get, why hosting servers use RAID 10, and why RAID is not a backup.
Hardware & Datacenter
NVMe vs SATA SSD vs HDD: What the Difference Means for Hosting
How the three storage types differ in latency and IOPS, why a website's workload favours NVMe by a wide margin, and when the difference is not worth paying for.
Hardware & Datacenter
Inside a Server: CPU, RAM, Storage and NIC Explained
What each component in a hosting server does, how server parts differ from a desktop, and which spec-sheet numbers actually change site performance.