Book 7

Cloud & Remote Computing

VPS, IaaS, hybrid models, and Canadian infrastructure choices

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Cloud service models, remote work infrastructure, scaling, sovereignty, and picking the right hosting tier.

  • 9 chapters
  • ~4 hours
  • Hands-on exercises in every chapter
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Table of Contents

Chapters

Read in order the first time — later chapters reference the lab company introduced in Chapter 1.

  1. 01 Welcome to Book 7 The full stack from DNS to cloud — series recap. 8 min
  2. 02 IaaS, PaaS & SaaS Who manages what — responsibility matrix. 22 min
  3. 03 VPS vs Dedicated vs Bare Metal Decision tree for Workshop Co. growth stages. 28 min
  4. 04 Remote Computing & Desktop RDP, VDI, SSH, VPN — access patterns. 25 min
  5. 05 Hybrid & Multi-Cloud On-prem + cloud, egress, vendor lock-in. 25 min
  6. 06 Scaling & Elasticity Vertical vs horizontal, load balancers, state. 28 min
  7. 07 Canadian Data Sovereignty PIPEDA, .ca, in-country hosting rationale. 22 min
  8. 08 Cost & Operations Model CapEx vs OpEx, managed vs DIY ops burden. 25 min
  9. 09 Capstone: Workshop Co. 3-Year Plan Architecture from startup to 10k users/month. 45 min