Sometimes a single IP address is not enough for a server — especially as a project grows, new services appear, or the infrastructure needs to be separated. At THE.Hosting, additional IPs can be ordered through the billing system. The process takes only a few minutes and does not require complex configuration. Important: The option to order additional IP addresses is available for VPS plans starting from Argentum.
When people talk about LAMP, two fairly opposite opinions usually appear. The first one sounds something like this: “LAMP is a classic that still powers half of the internet.” The second one goes the other way: “LAMP is hopelessly outdated — it’s time to stop torturing the old stack and move on to newer, faster technologies.” In this article, we’ll try to look at the situation more carefully and understand why, even in 2026, LAMP remains a practical choice for many projects.
RouterOS is often described as if it were just an advanced firmware for routers. In practice, things are far more interesting.
RouterOS is a full-fledged network operating system capable of routing, filtering and marking traffic, setting up VPNs, managing multiple internet links, assigning addresses, and segmenting networks. At first, this sheer number of features can feel overwhelming—you need a clear idea of what you want to build from this toolkit. But in return, you get a system that you control completely.
Grafana is a platform that lets you build clear, convenient dashboards for monitoring your infrastructure and applications. Think of it as a storefront for dаta: Grafana connects to sources of metrics, logs, and traces, visualizes them in dashboards, and can send notifications when something goes wrong. Because of this, Grafana often becomes a central hub that developers, administrators, and operations engineers all use to quickly assess the health of services.
The modern internet is built in a way where free content often comes bundled with trackers, intrusive banners, and other unpleasant extras. In browsers, this is usually handled with extensions, but that approach has a major limitation: it only works inside the browser. Meanwhile, interaction with today’s internet goes far beyond a PC browser. Smart TVs, smartphones, tablets, game consoles, and in-app traffic remain outside that protection.
Docker is often recommended as something you can “just install and forget,” but that mindset is exactly why so much confusion surrounds it. In some places Docker is described as almost a virtual machine; elsewhere it’s presented as a “security technology,” and sometimes it’s even promised to speed up everything. In real infrastructure, Docker is first and foremost a way to package an application together with its environment and run it predictably — today, a month from now, on another server, and even with a different team. To make it genuinely simplify your life, it helps to understand once where the myths end and good practice begins.
Zip is a command-line tool for compressing files and folders. Compression makes transferring and storing data faster and easier, and it’s handy for emailing. Unzip does the opposite—it extracts archives.
Linux provides a wide range of system services (such as process management, login, syslog, cron, and more), as well as network services (remote access, email, printing, web hosting, data storage, file transfer, DNS, DHCP, and so on).
In essence, a service is a process or a group of processes that run continuously in the background, waiting for requests—most often from clients.
Linux offers several ways to manage services: start, stop, restart, or enable them to launch automatically at boot. Nearly all modern distributions rely on the same process manager — systemd.
When you're working on a project as a team, Git is essential. It tracks changes, lets you work in parallel, compare versions, and roll back when needed. Most people use GitHub or other cloud-based platforms. But what if you can't—or don’t want to—store code outside your company? In that case, setting up a local Git server is the way to go. And yes, you can do it on Windows Server. One of the easiest tools for the job is Gitea — it’s lightweight, doesn’t require complicated setup, and runs great on Windows.
If your server has limited RAM and the disk isn’t particularly fast, ZRAM can help speed things up noticeably. It uses a portion of your memory as compressed swap space — meaning you can fit 2–3 times more data into RAM, and it's still faster than writing to disk. In this guide, we’ll show you how to enable ZRAM on Ubuntu 24.04, and how to combine it with a regular swap file if needed.