An open coding model on one GPU against a closed frontier API, on six real PRs graded blind by three engineers. GPT-4 caught more on security; Qwen3-Coder was quieter and hallucinated less.
How to run Llama 3.1 8B on a single 8 GB VPS without a GPU, with the full set of commands and the throughput to expect.
Five models we deploy, the trade-offs of each for chat, code, agents and vision, and the minimum hardware each one needs.
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.