ARM hosting blog
Practical guides to ARM64 hosting from a UK business that runs nothing else: whether ARM suits your service, how to move it, and how we run it. Why we only run ARM.
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Is ARM good for servers? How to tell if an ARM VPS suits your service
Is ARM good for servers? A plain decision guide to whether your web app, database or containers will run on an ARM VPS in the UK, and what will not.
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How to port your application to ARM64 (aarch64)
How to port an application to ARM64: interpreted languages, Go and Rust cross-compiling, Java and .NET, and the C and C++ traps, for an aarch64 VPS.
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Moving Docker workloads to ARM64 hosting: multi-arch images with buildx
Migrate Docker workloads to ARM64 hosting: check images with docker manifest inspect, build multi-arch images with buildx, and set up CI for both.
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Migrating a WordPress or PHP site to ARM web hosting in the UK
How to migrate a WordPress or PHP site to ARM web hosting in the UK: what to check first, moving files and the database, and what actually changes on ARM.
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Why we only run ARM: Ampere VPS hosting from a UK business
Why VPS GB runs only ARM: Ampere Altra cloud servers in the UK, whole cores, no turbo, and what we gave up. A UK-hosted Graviton alternative for ARM.
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Moving PostgreSQL and MariaDB to an ARM cloud server
Migrate PostgreSQL, MariaDB or MySQL to an ARM cloud server: dump and restore, replication cutover, and why you should not copy the data directory.