This post benchmarks the Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong Lightweight Server, covering current plan pricing, real‑world tests of a 2‑core 2GB instance, bandwidth performance, PING latency, and return‑route tracing. It offers practical reference for cross‑border access and website hosting, with direct links to the official product page for quick purchase and deployment.

This guide walks you through deploying Plausible Analytics with Docker on Debian 11 (or any Docker-capable Linux). It provides a ready-to-use docker-compose template and directory layout, configures Postgres/ClickHouse, SMTP, and MaxMind GeoIP, and explains key options like generating SECRET_KEY_BASE and disabling user registration for a fast, privacy‑friendly self-hosted web analytics setup.

Review of Crunchbits’ Ryzen 5950X NVMe VPS: the $6.8/mo (ONLYTOWEL) 1 vCPU/4GB plan bundles 50GB Gen4 NVMe plus 450GB HDD, 10TB at 2.5Gbps, and IPv4+IPv6. We cover provider background, ordering tips and the HDD add-on via ticket, payment and anti‑fraud notes, backup caveats, and a full 1C4G test suite with Speedtest, iperf3, YABS, media‑unlock checks, latency metrics, and return‑route traces.