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    What are the biggest advantages to colocation?

    Colocating own server in most cases is cheaper than leasing in long-term. Also, you have more control on colocated equipment and depending on a contract can visit datacenter yourself to perform the maintenance whenever you wish without need to pay for remote hands.
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    WHMCS admin themes

    Warning should be taken into account as it recently suffered security vulnerability which was exploited against some hosts.
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    What control panel do you use mostly?

    I find it strange that only shared hosting management panels like DirectAdmin or cPanel are mentioned here. For managing KVM hypervisor nodes these two are my favorite: Proxmox and Virtfusion.
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    OpenVPN and 10Gbps ?

    OpenVPN is not the best software for high speed tunnels. Also, if encryption is a must, IPsec will be definitely a better option in a long-term, having the hardware offload on high end NIC, for example Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx with crypto unit. If you don't need any encryption, plain GRETAP (L2)...
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    Is there a difference what you call a blog folder/URL?

    What security concerns he is afraid of? The only thing coming to my mind is WordPress exploitation attempts, however those happen even without "blog" keyword used, as WordPress is easily detected via multiple ways. The care should be taken to secure the application, not hide its' presence I think :D
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    Website security measures like strong passwords, SSL certificates, and regular backups.

    For bruteforce protection there are two options I believe are crucial: captcha and MFA (like 2FA but may include more authentication steps). DDoS protection and scalability of your application/website is more about availability aspect, not confidentiality or integrity. Backups are important to...

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