Black Friday cools down as Hetzner raises prices and slashes bandwidth, sparking complaints. This post logs my FameSystems German dedicated server configuration and pricing, with a warning about balance-only payments and yearly billing. Includes an initial YABS benchmark and ongoing updates to all Black Friday orders.

Hands-on benchmark of a VPS advertised with “better-than-CN2” German routes and AMD 9950X: full plan specs and lscpu details included, but the CPU is actually EPYC Milan and network performance is mediocre. Evening peak shows no routing advantage back to China. Overall not recommended despite good local latency and media unlocks.

HostBrr has launched new DirectAdmin Storage Boxes, offering 500GB for just €7/year with unlimited domains, subdomains, databases, and free SSL—ideal for hosting a Chevereto image bed. This guide walks through DNS setup, subdomain configuration, and one‑click installation, while also warning about the risks of using a shared IP address.

This guide walks you through how to get 9 months of Huawei Cloud Flexus Application Server L at zero cost: register a Huawei Cloud account, join the HUAWEI CLOUD Developer Program to claim vouchers, and remember to submit your development environment regularly to avoid voucher withdrawal. Includes Singapore/Hong Kong region tips, test IPs, and purchase links.

A step-by-step guide to deploying AutoLady [byte-muse] with Docker and integrating it with MoviePilot and ANi-RSS for fully automated “study material” subscriptions and downloads. Covers container deployment, reverse proxy notes, qbittorrent configuration, site token setup for M-team/FSM, and scraping into your media library with MetaTube.

This post benchmarks Nube.SH’s Hong Kong/Singapore AMD 9950X bare‑metal server: $388/month with 128GB DDR5 ECC, 2×1.92TB Intel NVMe, 1Gbps with 32TB traffic (upgradable to 2×10G). It details BGP routing, public speed test endpoints, and updated CPU, disk, network, encoding, Redis, and mixed workload benchmark data.

Hands-on benchmarks of a dual AMD EPYC 9754 compute server and an 8×A800 GPU server. Includes full hardware specs, lscpu output, and Geekbench 5/6, X265, FIO results. Offers a light, informal look at how CPU and GPU computing power compare and where each setup shines.

Hands-on benchmark of a mainland China i7-14700K dedicated server: 20 cores / 28 threads, up to 5.6 GHz, 64 GB RAM, 2 TB NVMe. Includes full lscpu output plus cache, virtualization, and security mitigation details, as well as GeekBench, Yabs, UnixBench, and PerformanceTest Linux results to help evaluate it for online co-op and self-hosted game servers.

This post benchmarks Nube Cloud’s Hong Kong AMD EPYC 7532 dedicated server: 32 cores / 64 threads, 256 GB RAM, dual 1 TB NVMe, dual-port 40 GbE NIC, BGP blend with 100 Mbps bandwidth. Includes full pricing, test files, and detailed results from lscpu, Yabs, Bench.sh, Geekbench 5/6, PerformanceTest Linux, UnixBench, Sysbench, fusion script, IP quality and streaming unlock tests, power‑on hours and CheckHost.

Hands-on benchmark of the ClawCloud Hong Kong node: five regions available, generous bandwidth but overall performance is average, and the control panel is still being refined. Includes looking glass endpoints and details of the 2C/8G/100G/2T plan ($20). Sponsored benchmark, not a purchase recommendation—assess the risk yourself.

A step-by-step guide (based on Debian 12) to deploying Ani-RSS with Docker for fully automated anime tracking. Covers the official quick start, speeding up image pulls with mainland China mirrors, Docker Compose setup, and verification. Also compares Ani-RSS with AutoBangumi, explains advanced features like standby RSS, Telegram/Bark notifications, and includes an upgrade guide to v2.

HostBrr has launched new AMD 9950X plans in Germany on a non-Hetzner network, with noticeably better connectivity than ntt/hz. This post explains HostBrr’s 1-thread-per-vCore VDS rules, details the VPS/VDS line-up and promo code “9950XBRR”, and shares real-world benchmarks on a 2C/12G/10Gbps instance (including lscpu, YABS, Geekbench, UnixBench, PerformanceTest Linux, media unlocking, and routing) plus value analysis and buying tips.