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Bob Tong

@bobtongHongKongJoined August 2026

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Founder of VPS Rankings | Server benchmarking enthusiast | 10+ years in hosting

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Why 2 vCPUs & 4GB RAM Costs $5 on Provider A and $25 on Provider B: An Engineer's Guide to Cloud VPS Overselling

Every developer building side projects, hosting Docker stacks, or deploying microservices has faced this pricing dilemma: • Budget Host X: 2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM, 80GB NVMe SSD — \(4.99/mo • Cloud Platform

Oct 14 · 6 min readbobtong.hashnode.dev

What Oracle's Silent Free-Tier Cut Teaches Us About Depending on 'Free' Cloud Infrastructure

In mid-June 2026, Oracle quietly changed the numbers in its Ampere A1 Always Free documentation. No blog post, no changelog entry, no email to existing users. Just updated figures on a docs page that

Aug 21 · 3 min readbobtong.hashnode.dev

Behind the Scenes: My Complete VPS Benchmarking Methodology

Running a VPS review platform means I constantly get questions about exactly how I evaluate server performance. To keep things completely transparent, here is the exact testing stack I deploy for ever

Aug 2 · 1 min readbobtong.hashnode.dev

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Why 2 vCPUs & 4GB RAM Costs $5 on Provider A and $25 on Provider B: An Engineer's Guide to Cloud VPS Overselling

What Oracle's Silent Free-Tier Cut Teaches Us About Depending on 'Free' Cloud Infrastructure

Behind the Scenes: My Complete VPS Benchmarking Methodology

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Bob Tong's blogs

Why 2 vCPUs & 4GB RAM Costs $5 on Provider A and $25 on Provider B: An Engineer's Guide to Cloud VPS Overselling

What Oracle's Silent Free-Tier Cut Teaches Us About Depending on 'Free' Cloud Infrastructure

Behind the Scenes: My Complete VPS Benchmarking Methodology