James Rivera

Systems Engineer u0026 Writer

2 articles published

About James

James Rivera is a systems engineer who reviews hosting platforms, VPS providers, and cloud services. He runs benchmarks on every provider he covers and publishes the raw numbers alongside his analysis.

Areas of Expertise

Benchmarking VPS Reviews Performance Testing Linux Administration

Articles by James Rivera

RISC-V Is Painfully Slow for Servers Right Now — But Here Is Why You Should Still Pay Attention

Mar 11, 2026 · 6 min read

A Fedora developer benchmarked RISC-V against x86 and ARM for package builds. RISC-V was 5x slower. Here is what that means for the server world — and why wri...

Best VPS Hosting 2026: I Migrated 5 Sites to Find the Winner

Mar 4, 2026 · 7 min read

I migrated 5 real websites across 7 VPS providers and measured everything. Here is the definitive VPS hosting comparison for 2026.