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A plain comparison of shared hosting, VPS and managed hosting or PaaS for small business sites and online stores: responsibilities, isolation and performance, the signs a WooCommerce store or Next.js app has outgrown shared hosting, GDPR data residency, and a decision table.
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A step-by-step hardening checklist for a fresh Ubuntu 26.04 or 24.04 LTS VPS that will host a business website, with copy-paste commands for SSH keys, ufw, unattended-upgrades, fail2ban, time sync, swap, monitoring and backups.
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A working guide to running Next.js 16 on your own VPS: Node.js LTS, build-time versus runtime environment variables, a systemd unit and PM2 alternative, an Nginx server block with certbot HTTPS, the standalone output option, logs, and a two-port release script.
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