Self-hosted cloud storage is a file service that runs on your own server, not a provider’s. As a result, you keep the files and choose where the server sits. You pay for the machine, not for each person. This guide explains how it works, which tools you can run, and what you take on. You […]
A Nextcloud server needs less hardware than most guides claim. Nextcloud’s manual asks for 128 MB of RAM per PHP process, and its guidance for a single server stops at 100 users and 10 TB of storage. What really decides the machine is disk space, backups and bandwidth. This guide sums up what the official […]
Nextcloud vs Google Drive is a choice between a file service you rent per person and one you run on a server you control. Google Drive costs a fixed amount for each user. Nextcloud costs a server, and a server gets cheaper per person as more people share it. This guide puts numbers on that […]
What is HLS? HLS, short for HTTP Live Streaming, delivers video as short files listed in a playlist. Any player can fetch them over ordinary HTTP. Apple released it in 2009. Since then, it has become one of the most common ways live and recorded video reaches browsers and phones. This guide explains how HLS […]
PeerTube hosting is not a big-server job. The project says a basic instance runs on 1 vCore and 1.5 GB of RAM, and a big one on 4 vCores and 4 GB. What the software needs most is upload bandwidth and disk space. This guide sums up the official requirements, explains why one 1 Gbit/s […]
RTMP vs HLS is less a contest than a hand-off. RTMP carries a live stream from your encoder to a server, and HLS carries it from the server to viewers. Most live platforms use both, in that order. This guide compares them on delay, browser support, scale and codecs, then shows which one your stream […]
The PHP vulnerability known as PHP2Shell is a pair of critical flaws in the PHP runtime, tracked as two CVE records: CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Either one can let an attacker run code on a web server without logging in. PHP released fixes on 21 October 2026 in versions 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, and it […]
What is RTMP? Short for Real-Time Messaging Protocol, it carries live audio and video from an encoder to a server over one TCP connection. Macromedia built it for Flash in the early 2000s. Even so, it is still a standard way to send video from an encoder such as OBS to a platform such as […]
An Nginx RTMP server is a standard Nginx web server with a module added. The module accepts live video over RTMP and republishes it as HLS for viewers. In practice, one encoder sends one stream, and the server fans it out to many people. This guide gives a working configuration, locks it down, and sizes […]
A hardware transcoder is a dedicated video processor, such as a GPU, an ASIC or an FPGA. It converts video faster, and with less power, than a CPU. Comparing one comes down to three numbers: real-time streams per card, quality at a given bitrate, and cost per stream. This guide shows how to read each […]
Video transcoding converts a video that is already compressed into another compressed version. The new version can use a different codec, resolution or bitrate. It is why one upload plays on a phone, a smart TV and a slow café connection. This guide explains how it works, what it costs in computing time, and where […]
A video transcoding server takes one incoming video and turns it into several versions, at different resolutions and bitrates, fast enough to keep pace with your audience. In short, renting one comes down to three decisions: CPU or GPU, how many streams it must hold in real time, and which details the listing leaves out. […]