Engineering
Why Use Private Desktops?
A business case for private employee desktops: controlled backend access from everyday employee devices.
Engineering
Even On-Prem, Servers Should Be Cattle, Not Pets
How we rebuilt our authoritative DNS design around independently operable roles, a reversible cutover, and observability that describes the system we now run.
Engineering
We Moved Our Own DNS onto Our Own Platform
How we registered .ca nameserver host records, recovered from an unrequested delegation change, and moved zsoftly.ca onto the nameservers we sell to customers.
Engineering
Local vs Replicated Block Storage in YUL-1: Performance, Price, and Recovery
A YUL-1 comparison of local NVMe, local SATA SSD, and shared replicated block storage. See the performance results, pricing model, and recovery tradeoffs before choosing a storage tier.
Engineering
What Nobody Tells You About Migrating a VPN Server From AWS to Private Cloud
A working public-cloud deployment does not always survive the move to private infrastructure. Here is the failure pattern we hit moving a VPN control plane off AWS, and the lessons that apply to any public-to-private cloud migration.
Engineering
What a Private AI Workload Taught Us About Compute, Cost, and Control
We tested Ollama and Open WebUI on a 64 GB Intel VM in ZCP YUL-1. Here is what decision-makers should know about private AI, model size, cost, speed, and deployment fit.