24 posts tagged with "performance"

Published on April 22, 2026

A lot of businesses still shop for hosting as if the server must sit in the same city as their customers. That used to be a safer rule. But Why GeoLocation of the datacenter is less important nowadays and how it could maintain lower costs for business comes down to a simple shift: modern networks, edge delivery, distributed services, and smarter application design have reduced the penalty of physical distance in many real-world cases.

That does not mean location is irrelevant. It means location is no longer the first question for every workload. For many small to mid-sized businesses, agencies, SaaS teams, and online stores, the bigger cost drivers are support quality, server management, backup reliability, storage type, monitoring, and how quickly problems get fixed when something breaks.

If you're comparing hosting plans and seeing VPS prices all over the map, you're not imagining it. How much does a VPS cost depends on more than RAM and storage. The real price is shaped by performance, management level, backup policy, support quality, and how much operational risk you want to carry yourself.

A very cheap VPS can look fine on paper and still cost more in downtime, slow support, or missing backups. On the other side, an expensive plan is not automatically better if you're paying for resources or services you will never use. The useful question is not just what a VPS costs per month. It's what you're actually getting for that monthly bill.

Modern HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocols can significantly speed up site loading, improve user experience and increase search engine rankings. But not everything is so simple: they have both advantages and disadvantages. Let's understand what these protocols are, their pros and cons, and how to enable them on your server.

Search engine bots (crawlers) are special programs that scan websites on the Internet. Search engines need them to find, index and display pages in search results. But not all bots are useful!

Sometimes your site may be visited by unwanted bots that:

• Collect data without your permission.
• Consume server resources, slowing it down.
• Are used to look for vulnerabilities.

If you want to protect your site from such bots, it’s time to configure Nginx! In this article, we’ll show you how to easily and quickly block them using a special configuration file.