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Five models we deploy, the trade-offs of each for chat, code, agents and vision, and the minimum hardware each one needs.
Changing the SSH port won't stop anyone who is looking for your server. This is the list we'd work through instead, in rough priority order, with the reasoning for each item.
You can run KVM guests inside a VPS. Some uses make sense, and some will cause you trouble later.
I built three blogs that look the same, put each one on an identical VPS and load tested them with k6. The gap between them is large.