VPS know-how & server operations
Tutorials, optimization and server operations for developers and sysadmins. Practical, concise, and well-sourced.
How to rent a VPS in Vietnam as a foreign company
A step-by-step guide for foreign companies to rent a VPS in Vietnam: choose a plan, order, pay via PayPal or wire transfer, and provision in minutes. No Vietnamese entity required.
Serving mobile users on Vietnamese carriers: a network primer
A hands-on guide for overseas developers: how to optimize your VPS latency, routing, and TTFB for Vietnam's mobile-dominant audience on Viettel, VNPT, and FPT networks.
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.
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.