The original VPSLatch ran a blog full of cPanel and CentOS how-tos, written because customers kept asking the same questions. Same habit, restored — plus the infrastructure decisions behind the relaunch, written down while they are still fresh.
16 Aug 2026 · Bitcoin
Most hosts that "accept bitcoin" hand you to a processor that takes custody, converts to fiat and asks for your passport. Here is the whole mechanism we use instead: an extended public key, a fresh address per invoice, and a server that cannot spend a satoshi.
16 Aug 2026 · How-to
A fresh server is at its most vulnerable before you have touched it. SSH keys, an unprivileged user, a firewall that will not lock you out, unattended upgrades, and the two mistakes that account for most compromised boxes.
16 Aug 2026 · Virtualisation
The original VPSLatch sold OpenVZ in 2010 and moved to KVM for good reasons. What each type of virtualisation really gives you, why "1GB RAM" means three different things depending on the platform, and how to tell what you have been sold.
16 Aug 2026 · Managed hosting
It is the most abused word in hosting. Four genuinely different things get sold under the same label, at prices that differ by a factor of ten. The questions to ask before you pay for any of them.
16 Aug 2026 · cPanel
cPanel was free with a VPS when VPSLatch first sold one. After the 2019 repricing it can cost more than the server. What it still does better than anything else, what the alternatives actually cost, and how to decide.
16 Aug 2026 · How-to
The migration that goes wrong always goes wrong the same way: DNS moved before the data did, or mail was forgotten entirely. A sequence that avoids both, and the one check people skip that costs them a day of email.
16 Aug 2026 · SEO
vpslatch.net lapsed and a third party published 231 pages of auto-generated spam on it. Redirecting those URLs into real pages is the obvious move and it is exactly wrong. Why we serve 410 Gone instead, and what that does to a recovering domain.
15 Aug 2026 · History
A managed VPS host that got a lot right, sold at the top in 2011, and then vanished so completely that its own domain ended up serving spam. The whole story, reconstructed from the archives — the $4.46 OpenVZ beginnings, the contrarian bet on managed hosting, the HostDime acquisition, life inside DimeNOC, and what happens to the name now.
The old blog got written because people asked. That still works — tell us what you are stuck on and if it is a good question it becomes a post.