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Backups Are Cheap Until You Need Them Back

Most cloud storage providers charge little to store data and much more to retrieve it, which can turn a disaster-recovery test into an expensive surprise. This piece walks through why PCIS Cloud's flat-rate, S3-compatible object storage avoids that trap, and how to point backup tools like Veeam, Acronis, or restic at it with just an endpoint, access key, and secret key.

• October 20, 2026
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When a Virtual Machine Isn't Enough: PCIS Cloud's Managed Dedicated Servers

Some workloads genuinely need guaranteed, non-shared hardware that virtualization can't promise. This article explains when PCIS Cloud's managed dedicated servers, real single-tenant hardware with monitoring, patching, and backups handled by the team, make more sense than a self-service VM, and why pricing for them is quote-based rather than a fixed tier.

• October 16, 2026
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Self-Service Compute With Your Own Firewall: Inside PCIS Cloud's Instances

Instances is a second, separate compute product line running alongside Virtual Machines, built around a firewall you manage yourself and a console you can reach even before networking has finished setting up. This piece covers how self-service security groups and SSH key handling work, and when Instances is the better fit over a standard VM.

• October 16, 2026
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Nigeria's E-Invoicing Mandate Meets Odoo: What PCIS Cloud Built, and Why It's Different

Nigeria's Revenue Service now requires invoices to be electronically cleared before they're legally valid, which normally means building or buying a separate integration. This article explains how PCIS Cloud built that clearance flow directly into its self-service Odoo hosting, including where credentials are stored and the difference between sign-only and sign-and-transmit clearance.

• October 16, 2026
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Cutting Checkout Latency for a Lagos-Based E-Commerce Platform

A Nigerian e-commerce platform hosted on a distant international cloud region was losing customers to slow page loads and a hesitant checkout flow. This case study covers how moving its compute and database layer to PCIS Cloud's Lagos infrastructure fixed the underlying latency problem without requiring a rebuild.

• October 14, 2026
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Own Your Data Again: How Nextcloud Delivers Real Data Sovereignty

Organisations often lose track of where their data actually lives as tools get adopted one convenient sign-up at a time. This article makes the case for self-hosted collaboration, using Nextcloud, hosted and managed on PCIS Cloud's own infrastructure, as a way to keep files, meetings, mail, and documents under an organisation's own control.

• September 15, 2026