SSSergei Solodinsergeisolod.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 9 min readAVA Hosting Said “No Sharing.” My VPS Reported 32.73% CPU StealA production debugging story about one KVM VPS, Linux steal time, and why a running server can still be starved of CPU. This is not a negative review of AVA Hosting. It is simply a record of what happ00
SSSergei Solodinsergeisolod.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 11 min readMy REGXA VPS Had 94% CPU Steal With Zero TrafficHow I separated an application bottleneck from hypervisor contention using mpstat, PSI, localhost tests, and one simple control experiment. I am not writing this as a negative review of REGXA, and I a00
SSSergei Solodinsergeisolod.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 22 min readI Replaced Bunny Storage With a Private Media Origin. The Biggest Win Was Not BandwidthFor almost two months, I served a large collection of images, video, and audio through a setup that looked reasonable on paper: Browser ↓ Working server ↓ Nginx ↓ local proxy_cache ↓ cache00
SSSergei Solodinsergeisolod.hashnode.dev·Aug 27 · 20 min readDesigning a Safer WebP→AVIF Pipeline with SSIMULACRA2I thought I had a threshold problem. I actually had a reference problem, followed by an acceptance-logic problem. The image pipeline was already doing something fairly sophisticated: instead of assign00
SSSergei Solodinsergeisolod.hashnode.dev·Aug 17 · 15 min readDeepSeek Raised Its API Prices. I Kept V4 Flash and Changed the Infrastructure InsteadA price increase usually makes you ask one question: What model should I switch to? That was my first thought too. On August 17, I checked my DeepSeek API usage and noticed that the balance was disapp00
