Notes from the people running your infra.
Engineering deep dives, product launches and the occasional rant about networking. Written by HostEngine staff, no ghostwriters.
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We rewrote the build pipeline around BuildKit and per-PR preview environments. Builds are 4.6× faster.
H100s on demand are now $1.89/hr — here's why
We brought a new generation of liquid-cooled racks online in Ashburn and Frankfurt. Capacity unlocked, price went down.
Forex VPS micro-benchmarks: MT5 tick-to-trade across 12 brokers
We ran a synthetic EA against IC Markets, Pepperstone, FXCM and 9 others from our LD4 cage. Numbers inside.
Running Postgres 17 on managed databases — what changed
Streaming I/O, incremental backups, and SQL/JSON Table all hit GA. Here's how we rolled it out without downtime.
We passed SOC 2 Type II — and why we publish the report
Your auditors keep asking. Now you can grab the latest report from the Trust Center without an NDA dance.
Managed Kubernetes 1.30 — sidecar containers, ValidatingAdmissionPolicy
1.30 ships sidecars to GA. We've upgraded all managed clusters with zero customer downtime.
Anycast game routing: cutting tail latency for community servers
How a small change to BGP communities took p99 jitter for our gaming customers from 18ms to 4ms.
Why we don't charge for cross-AZ traffic
Egress should be a fairly priced commodity, not a vendor moat. Here's the math behind our pricing.
IPv6 by default — every new VPS, every new PoP
/64 prefixes for every droplet, full transit, and one less reason to hand-roll workarounds.
Ship on infrastructure built for the next decade.
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# spin up a 4 vCPU / 8 GB cloud VPS in 55s $ hostengine vps create --plan "performance-4x8" --region "fra1" ✓ provisioned vps_2x9k1q (172.247.18.42) ✓ image debian-12 ready · ssh keys attached ✓ snapshot policy: hourly · backups: 30 days $ hostengine domain attach "trading.acme.io" --ssl ✓ DNS verified · Let's Encrypt cert issued in 6.4s