Alex's Dev Blog

Software developer. Writing about Linux, networking and open source.

Setting up a minimal VPS for personal projects

March 12, 2026

After trying several cloud providers, I settled on a small VPS in the Netherlands. The setup process took about an hour including hardening SSH, configuring ufw and getting nginx running properly.

Why I switched from Apache to Nginx

February 3, 2026

The memory footprint difference was the main reason. On a 1GB RAM server, every megabyte counts. Nginx handles my modest traffic easily with much lower resource usage.

BBR congestion control — is it worth it?

January 18, 2026

Short answer: yes. After enabling BBR on my server I noticed a measurable improvement in throughput especially for clients with high latency connections.