Technical guides on dedicated IPs and choosing a VPS. Facts first, and checkable yourself — you don't have to take our word for it.
The difference between a dedicated static IP and a shared or dynamic one, why it matters for reputation and reachability, and how to verify an IP is really yours alone.
How an independent regional VPS host differs from hyperscale clouds like AWS and GCP, where a small provider wins, and where the big cloud is the right call.
Which workloads actually need a dedicated static IP on a real ISP access line, which are fine on a cheap shared address, and the five questions to answer before you order.
What availability means for a host running on consumer access lines: the out-of-band setup that recovers most failures remotely, the failure modes it does not cover, two of our own outages written up in full, and what to ask any provider.
Consumer broadband is designed around dynamic assignment. The reasons are structural, the exceptions are expensive, and CGNAT means some lines cannot offer a public address at all. An honest cost comparison of getting your own versus buying one.
The first hour after provisioning decides how much work a future address change will cost you. Four things to do — record and verify, wire the address in deliberately, monitor it, and plan for the swap you will eventually need.
The mechanics behind why consumer lines default to dynamic addresses — DHCP leases, IPv4 exhaustion economics, CGNAT (RFC 6598) — plus the precise difference between static, sticky, dynamic and a DHCP reservation, and why home upload is slower than download.