https://f6b1ca2c.nuvai-blog.pages.dev/tags/hybrid/ Recent content in Hybrid on Luis Sousa Blog Hugo en Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://f6b1ca2c.nuvai-blog.pages.dev/posts/hybrid-wordpress-oracle-elitedesk-ipsec/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://f6b1ca2c.nuvai-blog.pages.dev/posts/hybrid-wordpress-oracle-elitedesk-ipsec/ <p>Running everything on one free-tier cloud VM works until it does not. Ours did not: on <a href="https://joyofexploringtheworld.com/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joyofexploringtheworld.com</a>, block editor REST storms, bulk SEO automation, MariaDB, ~100 GB of media, imgproxy, and backups all competed for four vCPUs and 23 GB RAM on a single Oracle instance.</p> <p>The cheapest upgrade path was not another €5 VPS. It was hardware we already owned — <strong>HP EliteDesk mini PCs with 60 GB RAM</strong> — connected to Oracle over <strong>Always Free IPSec</strong> via a home gateway that supports site-to-site VPN.</p>