About RackPilot

RackPilot exists because most VPS and self-hosting content online falls into one of two buckets: marketing pages written by hosting providers themselves, or thin, generic "how to install a LAMP stack" posts that could have been written without ever having run a real production server.

We wanted something in between — practical, opinionated guides written by people who actually operate infrastructure for real products, covering the decisions that matter (when to split a database onto its own server, whether Docker is worth it for a solo founder, how to actually verify your backups work) rather than just the commands to copy and paste.

What we cover

• VPS and cloud hosting comparisons, from the perspective of someone paying the bill
• Self-hosting SaaS products without over-engineering the infrastructure
• Practical security hardening that doesn't require a dedicated security team
• Control panels, deployment tooling, and the boring DevOps decisions that actually matter

Who this is for

Solo founders, indie hackers, and small teams running their own infrastructure instead of outsourcing every decision to a platform. If you're the person who gets paged when the server has a problem, this site is written for you.

Editorial approach

We write from direct operational experience running multi-tenant SaaS products, image delivery infrastructure, and internal tools on VPS providers including DigitalOcean, UpCloud, Vultr, and Worldstream. Where we accept sponsored content or guest contributions, they're clearly labeled as such — see our advertising guidelines for details. We don't accept payment in exchange for undisclosed editorial placement.