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Cloud Journal

Practical, provider-accurate writing on cloud infrastructure, developer workflows, security fundamentals and the decisions behind choosing a cloud.

Side by side illustration contrasting a hyperscaler service catalog with a compact developer cloud product line
Cloud Fundamentals

Hyperscalers vs Developer Clouds: Two Kinds of Cloud Provider

AWS and DigitalOcean are not competing versions of the same product. This guide draws the line between hyperscalers and developer…

6 min read
A reserved public address moving from a failed primary server to a healthy standby on a developer cloud
Infrastructure & Networking

Floating IPs and Failover on Developer Clouds

A floating address belongs to your account rather than to a server, so failover becomes an API call instead of…

6 min read
A dedicated physical server beside a rack of shared virtual machine instances
Infrastructure & Networking

Dedicated Servers vs Cloud VMs: When Bare Metal Wins

A cloud VM sells elasticity and a control plane; a dedicated server sells undivided hardware. This guide covers what you…

6 min read