https://blog.veloxahost.com/ Cloud infrastructure insights, tutorials, and company news from the VeloxaHost team. en-us Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/incus-multi-tenant-deep-dive.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/incus-multi-tenant-deep-dive.html Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT A technical deep dive into how VeloxaHost uses Incus projects, OVN networking, ZFS storage pools, and resource quotas to deliver isolated multi-tenant cloud instances. https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/veloxahost-vs-digitalocean.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/veloxahost-vs-digitalocean.html Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT Honest side-by-side comparison of VeloxaHost and DigitalOcean: pricing, performance, networking, developer experience, and when each is the right choice. https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/github-actions-deploy-vps.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/github-actions-deploy-vps.html Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT A complete, copy-paste GitHub Actions workflow that deploys to any VPS with zero downtime — SSH deploy keys, Docker Compose, health checks, and rollback. https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/docker-compose-production.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/docker-compose-production.html Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Resource limits, healthchecks, rolling updates, secrets, restart policies, log rotation — the production Docker Compose patterns tutorials skip. https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/incus-vs-proxmox-vs-docker.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/incus-vs-proxmox-vs-docker.html Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT An honest, technical comparison of Incus, Proxmox, and Docker: architecture, use cases, performance, and team fit. Which one should you run in production? https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/linux-server-hardening-checklist.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/linux-server-hardening-checklist.html Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT A production-ready Linux server hardening checklist covering SSH, firewall, fail2ban, auto-updates, audit logging, kernel hardening, and more — with copy-paste commands. https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/fail2ban-setup-ubuntu-22.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/fail2ban-setup-ubuntu-22.html Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Step-by-step guide to installing and configuring fail2ban on Ubuntu 22.04 to automatically block SSH brute force attacks and other malicious traffic. https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/lxc-vs-docker.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/lxc-vs-docker.html Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Docker containers share a single process namespace. LXC system containers run a full OS. Here's the architectural difference and when each is the right choice. https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/incus-vs-lxd-migration-guide.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/incus-vs-lxd-migration-guide.html Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT LXD transferred to Canonical in 2023, then the community forked it as Incus. Here's the full story, what changed, and how to migrate your workloads. https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/getting-started.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/getting-started.html Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT A hands-on walkthrough from account creation to a live cloud instance in under 5 minutes. https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/hardening-your-instances.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/hardening-your-instances.html Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Harden every instance you deploy — SSH keys, firewall rules, fail2ban, automatic updates, and audit logging. https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/docker-on-veloxahost.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/docker-on-veloxahost.html Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Deploy and manage Docker workloads on VeloxaHost cloud instances — patterns and best practices. https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/cicd-pipelines.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/cicd-pipelines.html Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Connect GitHub to VeloxaHost and automate deployments on every push using GitHub Actions and deploy keys. https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/why-we-built-veloxahost.html https://blog.veloxahost.com/posts/why-we-built-veloxahost.html Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT The founding story — how a Texas-based team built a cloud platform for developers who want simplicity, performance, and US-based infrastructure without the hyperscaler overhead.