House rule 02 — name the hardware
The box. In public.
Every host says "powerful hardware." Below is ours — real command output, straight off the production machine in NYC, commands shown so you know exactly what was asked. Nothing prettied up. Including the ugly line.
captured 2026-06-10 04:13 UTC · production box ny1 · ask and we re-run any of these live
root@ny1:~$ lscpu | grep "Model name" ; nproc
Model name: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor BIOS Model name: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor Unknown CPU @ 4.3GHz 32
The chip, named. And yes — the BIOS prints a confusing "4.3GHz" placeholder string. Real boost is 5.75GHz. We left the ugly line in, because that's the deal.
root@ny1:~$ free -h
total used free Mem: 186Gi 5.2Gi 170Gi
The memory. 186 GB physical. Your plan's RAM is carved out of this — and the box is deliberately kept far from full. That's what "never oversold" looks like in a number.
root@ny1:~$ docker inspect <server> --format '{{.HostConfig.Memory}}'
Memory limit: 12884901888 bytes (= 12 GiB, to the byte) CPU limit: 4000000000 nano-cpus (= 4 cores)
The cap is real. A 12 GB plan's container, inspected. The limit isn't a marketing number — it's enforced by the kernel, and you can ask us to run this on yours.
root@ny1:~$ cat the-business-model
box cost: $255/month (yes, our actual cost) cap: ~14 Palworld-class servers, hard the math: yours to do — that's the point
We just told you our cost. No host does that, because their math embarrasses them. Ours pays for support, backups, DDoS protection, and the empty headroom that keeps your tick rate flat. The margin is the cap's insurance premium.
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