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Analysis and practical guides from the PowerDedi engineering team. Sourced numbers, no hype.
OVHcloud does not accept Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency. What its 2026 price changes mean for new orders and renewals, which PowerDedi server matches each OVHcloud range, when OVHcloud remains the better choice, and how to migrate.
10 min read
The EPYC 4585PX is AMD’s server-validated twin of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. How it compares with the 9950X3D and 9950X on ECC, memory capacity and speed, PCIe lanes, published Phoronix benchmarks and price, and when a 12-channel EPYC makes more sense.
10 min read
What an Ethereum full node, archive node or validator needs in 2026, based on EIP-7870 and the client documentation: CPU and single-thread speed, memory, NVMe size per client, history expiry, archive modes and bandwidth.
6 min read
Hetzner does not accept cryptocurrency, raised prices on 1 April and 15 June 2026, and meters its 10 Gbps uplink beyond 20 TB. What changed, which PowerDedi server matches each Hetzner model, who should stay, and how to migrate.
11 min read
Viewers = usable capacity ÷ bitrate. Viewer counts from 4K to audio-only on a 10 Gbps port, monthly traffic and CDN prices, x264 presets versus NVENC, Owncast, MediaMTX, SRS and nginx-rtmp, HLS and LL-HLS, and an origin-and-edges design.
10 min read
Hardware, ports and configuration for a Monero node in 2026, from the official docs: full, pruned or public remote node, restricted RPC, Tor and I2P, bandwidth caps, a systemd unit, and which dedicated server fits.
12 min read
What a Hyperliquid non-validating node or validator needs, from the official node repository: vCPUs versus physical cores, 128 GB of RAM, Ubuntu 24.04, gossip ports, why the README says Tokyo, and how to prune about 100 GB of data a day.
9 min read
The minio/minio repository has been read-only since 25 April 2026. We compare the Silo fork, Garage, SeaweedFS, RustFS and Ceph RGW on license, redundancy and S3 coverage, size them on one storage server, price the cloud alternatives and migrate with rclone.
12 min read
What a Monad full node or validator needs, from the official node operations docs: bare metal, 16 cores and what the 4.5 GHz base-clock rule really means, the TrieDB drive layout, bandwidth, ports, setup steps and current prices.
12 min read
What an NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 costs by the hour at the main GPU clouds and marketplaces in October 2026, the break-even point between hourly billing and a monthly server, the costs the hourly rate leaves out, and when hourly still wins.
10 min read
The Ryzen 9 9950X and 9950X3D share 16 Zen 5 cores and a 5.7 GHz boost; the X3D adds 64 MB of L3 to one chiplet. What published Linux benchmarks show, how to keep a game server on the cache chiplet, how to measure TPS and MSPT, and which to rent.
12 min read
What a TRON FullNode, Lite FullNode or Super Representative node needs in 2026, from the official java-tron documentation: CPU, RAM, snapshot sizes, ports and JVM settings, and whether you need a node at all to send USDT on TRON.
8 min read
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