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Analysis and practical guides from the PowerDedi engineering team. Sourced numbers, no hype.
Unmetered ports, 95th percentile billing, per-terabyte allowances and cloud egress fees: how each model measures your traffic, what it costs at 50 TB, 200 TB and 1 PB a month, and the questions to ask before you sign.
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Why mainstream hosts ask for passports and card photos, what happened to the proposed US KYC rule for cloud providers, what crypto payment processors require, and what a host without ID checks still records, with a checklist and red flags.
9 min read
What OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b need to run: weight sizes from the model card, the memory each token of context takes, single-GPU serving with vLLM and Ollama, documented GPU support, and which 24, 48 and 96 GB cards fit which model.
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A crypto payment cannot be reversed, so choose the host before you send anything. Twelve checks, what a good answer looks like, the red flags to walk away from, and how PowerDedi answers each one.
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A VPS is a slice of a shared machine; a dedicated server is the whole machine. What that changes for performance, cost and bandwidth, how to measure CPU steal on your VPS, and when moving to bare metal pays off.
5 min read
Across 19 providers that sell it, a 10 Gbps unmetered port adds a median of about $630 a month. What that buys, how the alternatives are billed, what cloud egress costs and how to test a port.
6 min read
Server DRAM contract prices rose at record quarterly rates from late 2025 into 2026. The data, why it happened, what it does to dedicated-server pricing and how to rent only the memory you need.
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Turin brings Zen 5 and dense Zen 5c cores, faster 12-channel DDR5 and a full 512-bit AVX-512 datapath to the SP5 socket. What that changes for dedicated servers, and which EPYC fits which job.
6 min read
What Solana validators and RPC nodes need in 2026, based on Anza’s published requirements: clock speed, memory for account indexes, separate NVMe drives, network capacity, tuning and concentration rules.
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Fees, confirmation times, privacy and price stability compared for the five coins we accept, plus the exchange-withdrawal mistakes behind most payment problems.
6 min read
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