The Journal

notes from the engine room

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Why we host on iron we own

The honest case for owned, low-density iron over a rented sliver of someone else's cloud — at least for the kind of sites we look after.

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Why we host on iron we ownThe honest case for owned, low-density iron over a rented sliver of someone else's cloud — at least for the kind of sites we look after.hardwarephilosophy
What “managed” actually meansA plain-language tour of the word every host uses and few define: backups you can restore, updates on a schedule, monitoring that never sleeps, and requests that actually get resolved.managedplain language

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