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I am asked about Kubernetes more often than I expected, given that most of my small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) clients don’t need it. The pattern is usually the same. Someone’s developer reads an article, a competitor mentions it, or they feel behind after reading a job posting. Then, they call me asking how quickly…
I have been doing this for over 20 years. WordPress builds, server management, cloud infrastructure, deployments. Mostly for small and medium businesses. One question comes up all the time: “Do I need a WordPress person, or a DevOps person?” For most SMEs, the answer is usually one person who gets both sides. Here’s the lowdown…
Update, November 2026 UpCloud now offers spot pricing on its GPU servers. For the L4 plan used in this guide, the spot rate is only slightly below the on-demand price, so the saving is small, and spot servers can be interrupted. The prices in this guide are on-demand. Check UpCloud’s pricing page for current rates….
You have probably noticed the pattern by now. First, you experiment with GPT-4 for internal tools. Then, a few customer-facing features appear. Finally, someone forwards you the monthly OpenAI bill, and your eyes widen.At what point does “just using the API” become a problem worth solving?Not every company should self-host LLMs. For many companies, the…
Open-source AI inference without OpenAI API costs. For developers who need control. If you’re running LLM-powered features at any meaningful volume, OpenAI API costs add up fast. At $15 per million output tokens for GPT-4o, a modest production workload can easily hit hundreds of dollars a month – before you even consider the data privacy…
Many years ago, I worked as part of a development team developing and maintaining a large Israeli internet portal called Nana. Development was not where it is today, most of the mechanisms that are widely available for developers today, were written from scratch by our team, but the work was about the same. Infrastructure was…
Amazon Lightsail is a powerful hosting solution for web applications and for websites. However, before you try it with your website, there are a few things you should consider. Managed vs. Unmanaged A simple shared web hosting solution is a managed hosting solution meaning someone else has taken the server configuration & maintenance tasks upon…