SSSergei Solodinsergeisolod.hashnode.dev·11h ago · 11 min readMy REGXA VPS Had 94% CPU Steal With Zero TrafficHow I separated an application bottleneck from hypervisor contention using mpstat, PSI, localhost tests, and one simple control experiment. I am not writing this as a negative review of REGXA, and I a00
SSSergei Solodinsergeisolod.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 22 min readI Replaced Bunny Storage With a Private Media Origin. The Biggest Win Was Not BandwidthFor almost two months, I served a large collection of images, video, and audio through a setup that looked reasonable on paper: Browser ↓ Working server ↓ Nginx ↓ local proxy_cache ↓ cache00
SSSergei Solodinsergeisolod.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 20 min readDesigning a Safer WebP→AVIF Pipeline with SSIMULACRA2I thought I had a threshold problem. I actually had a reference problem, followed by an acceptance-logic problem. The image pipeline was already doing something fairly sophisticated: instead of assign00
SSSergei Solodinsergeisolod.hashnode.dev·Aug 17 · 15 min readDeepSeek Raised Its API Prices. I Kept V4 Flash and Changed the Infrastructure InsteadA price increase usually makes you ask one question: What model should I switch to? That was my first thought too. On August 17, I checked my DeepSeek API usage and noticed that the balance was disapp00
SSSergei Solodinsergeisolod.hashnode.dev·Jan 12 · 5 min readI Built a Next.js Blog in 21 Languages: Here’s What Happened After the First WeekI recently set myself a personal challenge: build a technical blog that supports 21 languages from day one using Next.js. The goal was not simply to publish articles in multiple languages. I wanted to00
