Find guides, tutorials, and documentation to help you get the most out of CubePath services.
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Learn where virtualization overhead comes from, how bare metal and KVM VMs compare on CPU, memory, disk and network, and how to benchmark both yourself.
Compare VPS, dedicated servers and hyperscale cloud on performance, cost, scaling and operations, measure your workload and pick the right platform for it.
Compare Linux and Windows Server on licensing, resource usage, security, remote management and application support to pick the right OS for your server.
Compare Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS Stream and Rocky Linux on support lifecycle, package versions, security defaults and use cases to choose your server distro.
Compare Apache and Nginx on architecture, memory use, PHP handling, .htaccess, reverse proxying and configuration syntax, with examples for Ubuntu 24.04.
Compare MySQL and PostgreSQL on SQL features, JSON, indexing, replication, concurrency and licensing, with side by side examples to pick the right database.
Compare HDD, SATA SSD and NVMe storage on throughput, IOPS, latency, endurance and cost, then identify and benchmark the disks in your Linux server with fio.
Compare systemd, SysVinit and OpenRC: how each boots Linux, manages services, logs and dependencies, with the same service written for all three init systems.
Understand how IPv4 and IPv6 differ in addressing, NAT, headers and security, and learn how to run a dual-stack Linux server with Nginx, databases and UFW.
