Category: Hosting Providers

We look at why attack surface management and cyber-risk scanning companies, businesses that scan large swaths of the public internet as their core product, run into trouble on hyperscaler infrastructure, what actually needs to be true about a provider’s acceptable use policy and IP allocation to support this workload, and how that differs from running an internal penetration testing lab.

We work through the actual cost crossover between GitHub-hosted Actions runners and self-hosted runners on dedicated bare metal, using GitHub’s current 2026 rates, correct a common misconception about a self-hosted runner fee that never took effect, and cover what a self-hosted build pipeline needs beyond just cheaper compute.

We compare three dedicated server providers commonly considered for Proxmox VE hosting, OpenMetal, Hetzner, and OVHcloud, across real hardware specs, current pricing, storage architecture, and support model, so you can match the provider to your actual workload rather than just the sticker price.

We look at why Azure’s egress fees are no longer the sharpest lock-in mechanism, and walk through the specific managed services (Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Service Bus, Logic Apps, Azure AD B2C / Entra External ID) that actually make leaving Azure hard, including the one place Azure is more open than either AWS or GCP, and the one place it’s arguably worse.

We look at why Google Cloud’s egress fees are no longer the sharpest lock-in mechanism, and walk through the specific managed services (Cloud Functions, Firestore, Cloud Spanner, Pub/Sub, Cloud Workflows, Identity Platform) that actually make leaving Google Cloud hard, including where GCP’s lock-in profile is genuinely different from AWS’s.

DORA has been in force since January 2025, and the third-party ICT risk requirements are where infrastructure decisions land hardest. This article breaks down what Articles 28–30 require, why hyperscaler concentration is now a documented regulatory problem, and how private cloud in the EU changes the risk picture.

Running production and recovery on the same provider creates vendor concentration risk that most DR plans don’t address. This article covers both hybrid DR architectures, how to choose the right direction for your organization, what hyperscaler DR actually costs, and the tooling that makes cross-provider recovery work reliably.

Professional PoS validator operations have specific infrastructure demands that general hosting and public cloud weren’t built for. This guide covers the five requirements that separate adequate from production-grade hosting, where public cloud falls short, and what to verify before signing with a provider.

If your AWS bill has crossed $20K/month and you’re wondering whether private cloud is worth the work, this guide maps every major AWS service to its OpenStack equivalent, walks through the network and data migration process, and gives you an honest account of what the transition actually involves.

Discover how cloud resellers can offer scalable on-demand GPU services for AI/ML by leveraging OpenMetal’s Private GPU Servers. Learn about GPU time-slicing, MIG, virtualization strategies, and industry trends driving growth—plus key business benefits and real-world use cases.