VPS know-how & server operations
Tutorials, optimization and server operations for developers and sysadmins. Practical, concise, and well-sourced.
Hosting a Vietnamese-language site: infrastructure decisions that matter
Learn practical infrastructure choices for hosting a Vietnamese website: UTF-8 encoding, font handling for diacritics, image weight optimization, and server location trade-offs for real users in Vietnam.
Should your CDN origin sit inside Vietnam
Architecture analysis of placing a CDN origin server inside Vietnam: latency trade-offs, uncacheable requests, domestic vs international bandwidth, and when a local origin makes sense for your stack.
Measuring real latency from Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi to your server
Learn how to measure real latency from Vietnam (HCMC, Hanoi) to any server using mtr, ping, traceroute, looking glasses, and third-party probes. Reproducible commands for sysadmins.
Undersea cable cuts and why offshore hosting fails Vietnamese users
A detailed technical breakdown of why hosting in Singapore or Hong Kong degrades performance for Vietnamese users during frequent undersea cable disruptions, and why a Vietnam-based VPS solves it.
Routing to VNPT, Viettel and FPT: what domestic peering actually changes
Understand Vietnam's three dominant ISPs, VNPT, Viettel, FPT, and how their domestic peering affects latency, stability, and routing for your VPS hosted in Vietnam.
Vietnam VPS vs Singapore VPS for Serving Vietnamese Users
An honest comparison between Vietnam and Singapore VPS for serving Vietnamese users. Singapore wins on international bandwidth; Vietnam wins on domestic latency and IP range. No marketing, just the facts you need to decide.
Why a Vietnam IPv4 matters when your users are in Vietnam
A technical deep-dive into why a local IPv4 from Vietnam matters for geo-detected services, domestic routing speed, and local API integrations on your VPS.
What happens after A05 issues a written storage request
A practical timeline guide for companies outside Vietnam: from the written request arrival to your 24-hour response window, and what infrastructure readiness means for a05 data storage request vietnam compliance.
A Compliance Checklist for Foreign E-commerce Platforms Serving Vietnam
A practical compliance checklist for foreign e-commerce platforms serving Vietnam: data localization, Decree 53, hosting requirements, and how a Vietnam VPS fits into the picture.
Do I need a branch office in Vietnam or is a rented server enough?
Deciphering the branch office Vietnam data requirement: understanding Decree 53 compliance, storage orders, and when a leased VPS suffices vs. when a legal entity is mandatory.
Decree 53 vs Decree 13: cybersecurity storage vs personal data protection
A clear comparison of Vietnam's Decree 53 on cybersecurity data storage and Decree 13 on personal data protection (PDPD). Know which applies to your VPS or business operations in Vietnam.
24-month retention for Vietnamese user data and what it means for server sizing
Learn what Vietnam's 24-month data retention means for your VPS storage. We calculate disk needed per user base and help you pick the right plan.
Mirror architecture: keeping a Vietnam copy while your primary stays offshore
How to build a Vietnam data mirror server for regulatory compliance, covering replication patterns, sync lag, costs for sysadmins outside Vietnam.