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Notes from the machine room.
Build notes from running our own hardware, product decisions we had to make carefully, and the occasional thing we got wrong. Practical engineering writing from the people operating the platform.
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17 Jun 2026
Building infrastructure with an AI coding agent: the safety model
The safety pattern behind using a coding agent to create real Excloud infrastructure: discovery, planning, cost estimates, confirmation gates, and destructive-action policy.
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17 Jun 2026
Instance types: burstable vs dedicated CPU
How to choose between Excloud t1a and m1a instances, with practical guidance for bursty apps, databases, workers, and cost-sensitive services.
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17 Jun 2026
Designing a CLI that agents can safely drive
How we shape the exc CLI so coding agents can inspect, plan, wait, and act without guessing or hiding dangerous operations.
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17 Jun 2026
MANRS for cloud users: why routing hygiene matters
What MANRS means for people running workloads in the cloud: route filtering, RPKI, PeeringDB, BYOIP, and why network hygiene affects reliability.
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17 Jun 2026
Snapshots: what they protect you from and what they don't
A practical guide to Excloud volume snapshots: point-in-time copies, restore workflows, accidental deletion protection, and where snapshots stop being backups.
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16 Jun 2026
Standing up real infrastructure by talking to a coding agent
A full walkthrough of a Claude Code session driving the exc CLI to build a web box and a private Postgres box on Excloud — in plain English, with every command shown and a confirmation gate before anything billable.
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13 Jun 2026
We built our cloud on bare metal in Mumbai. Here's what we learned.
An engineering-honest account of building Excloud on bare metal in Mumbai: the network, the control plane, and the operational lessons.
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9 Dec 2024
Why Port 25 is Blocked in the Cloud
Understand why cloud providers block port 25 by default, its implications, and secure email delivery options.
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4 Dec 2024
Deploying Signoz on Excloud
Learn how to deploy Signoz on Excloud
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