How to Choose VPS CPU, RAM, and Storage for Your Website
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Shakeel Ahmed
Lead Architect
Guides Core Panel system architecture, security boundaries, and server-operation workflows.
Product responsibilities
- Architecture and separation of privileged server operations.
- Technical guidance on hosting, migration, databases, and recovery.
- Named technical review of the public application-hosting guides.
Published articles
Website Migration to a New VPS: DNS Cutover and Data Safety
Plan a website move to a new VPS with consistent data, tested HTTPS, a controlled DNS cutover, and a rollback process that protects new updates.
VPS Monitoring Checklist: Uptime, Performance, and Alerts
Build a practical VPS monitoring routine covering website uptime, application performance, server capacity, backup freshness, and actionable alerts.
How to Fix 504 Gateway Timeout in Nginx on Ubuntu
Diagnose Nginx 504 Gateway Timeout errors on an Ubuntu VPS with log checks, upstream tests, PHP-FPM troubleshooting, and targeted timeout fixes.
How to Evaluate a cPanel Alternative
A practical framework for comparing hosting control panels across workload fit, migration risk, security, recovery, support, and total cost.
Understanding Per-Account Hosting Panel Licensing
Learn how account-based control-panel licensing changes as a server grows and how to build a defensible cost comparison.
A Production Security Checklist for Self-Hosted Control Panels
A deployment checklist covering administrator access, network exposure, updates, isolation, backups, monitoring, and incident readiness.
Planning a cPanel Migration: What Must Move
A complete migration inventory for websites, databases, DNS, email, certificates, jobs, users, backups, and rollback.
Choosing a Hosting Control Panel for Node.js and Python
Compare the runtime, reverse-proxy, database, deployment, recovery, and access requirements that matter when hosting Node.js and Python applications.
MySQL and PostgreSQL Hosting Control Panels: What to Compare
A practical comparison of MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL hosting workflows across compatibility, access, tooling, pooling, monitoring, backups, restores, and migration risk.
Core Panel vs cPanel for Reseller Hosting
Compare reseller hosting platforms by licensing, delegation, limits, customer workflows, capacity, migration, integrations, and total operating cost.