https://dracon.uk/blog AI prices, browser games, music, and tools — build notes and data-driven posts from Dracon. en https://dracon.uk/blog/vps-sla-fine-print https://dracon.uk/blog/vps-sla-fine-print Marketing pages say 99.9%. Contracts say things like 95% — or nothing at all. Every published uptime commitment across our 12-provider VPS catalog, read from the actual legal documents. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/renewal-trap-ranked https://dracon.uk/blog/renewal-trap-ranked The first year is marketing; the second year is the price. We ranked all 12 registrars in our captured catalog by their .com renewal jump — from IONOS's +1900% to Cloudflare's 0%. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/eur-usd-domain-bill https://dracon.uk/blog/eur-usd-domain-bill A €10.07 renewal is not a $10.07 renewal. How ignoring the euro/dollar rate misranks European registrars by ~7% — and what fixed ranking looks like. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/hidden-icann-fee https://dracon.uk/blog/hidden-icann-fee Every gTLD registration carries a mandatory $0.18/year ICANN fee. Whether it's already inside the listed price depends entirely on the registrar — and checkout is where you find out. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/infinite-promo-markup https://dracon.uk/blog/infinite-promo-markup A $0 or $1 first year renders as a 0% 'renewal hike' on most comparison sites — the worst promos look like the best deals anywhere on the internet. Here is the math that fixes it. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/near-tie-feature-scoring https://dracon.uk/blog/near-tie-feature-scoring Two cloud storage plans, $1.38 apart on a $556 bill. Which wins? Our answer — price decides, near-ties badge — and why naive 'always cheapest' and old feature-band ranking lie in different ways. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/vector-db-free-tiers https://dracon.uk/blog/vector-db-free-tiers "Free forever" means 21 different things across the vector database market. Every free tier in our captured catalog — storage, vectors, queries, credits — on one honest table. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/first-10k-emails-cost https://dracon.uk/blog/first-10k-emails-cost Six vendors charge $0/month at launch volume — and the paid floor starts at $15. Every price below comes from our captured email-API catalog, run through the same compute engine our comparison tool uses. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/cheapest-claude-august-2026 https://dracon.uk/blog/cheapest-claude-august-2026 Seven providers we track serve Claude. Free lanes, pay-as-you-go, and subscriptions compared, with the catches and the cheapest route for light vs heavy use. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/ai-promo-codes-august-2026 https://dracon.uk/blog/ai-promo-codes-august-2026 Our catalog tracks 15 active AI promo and referral codes across 13 providers. What each one gets you, the fine-print limits, and which are worth the effort. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/free-ai-rate-limits-2026 https://dracon.uk/blog/free-ai-rate-limits-2026 22 of the 45 AI providers we track have a free tier. The real limits side by side: RPM, daily caps, token grants, and the 7 that hold up for actual work. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/byok-real-cost https://dracon.uk/blog/byok-real-cost The honest math behind bring-your-own-key: real API token prices from our 45-provider catalog versus $20 AI subscriptions, and why Dracon Omni is $10. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/one-person-platform https://dracon.uk/blog/one-person-platform An honest ops tour of dracon.uk: one VPS, five static apps and two Node apps behind Caddy, five Rust APIs on unix sockets, Paddle, OVH buckets, one person. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/ai-written-novels-bookstore https://dracon.uk/blog/ai-written-novels-bookstore Five novels, 523,980 words, written end to end by our own book pipeline and published free forever with the AI label on the tin. Meet the Dracon Bookstore. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/dracon-arcade-pipeline https://dracon.uk/blog/dracon-arcade-pipeline The 8-step pipeline from local build to OVH bucket to the catalog flip, the real status counts across our 18-game catalog today, and what ships next. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/three-games-one-bug https://dracon.uk/blog/three-games-one-bug One SvelteKit default broke three of our games on the same night: 390 to 451 reloads in six seconds, zero console errors. The full postmortem, with the fix. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/focus-music-by-the-data https://dracon.uk/blog/focus-music-by-the-data We computed the real stats behind our 2,500-track focus library: BPM bands, mood-tag counts, the 10-track rule, and why only 3 cooks in 250 carry the focus tag. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/sleep-music-cooks https://dracon.uk/blog/sleep-music-cooks Seven sleep-friendly cooks from our 2,500-track recipe library: a 40 BPM space drift, a note held for hours, dark ambient with a shadow, and honest caveats. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/ai-price-war-july-2026 https://dracon.uk/blog/ai-price-war-july-2026 OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna 80% on July 30; DeepSeek shipped V4 Flash to public beta July 31 from $0.14/M tokens. We track 45 AI providers — here's what changed, with numbers. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/free-ai-apis-ranked https://dracon.uk/blog/free-ai-apis-ranked We maintain rate-limit data on 45 AI providers. Most 'free tiers' are demo taps. These 7 hold up for real work — with actual limits and how to mix them via BYOK. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/dracon-arcade-state https://dracon.uk/blog/dracon-arcade-state Our games catalog tracks 18 projects from released to experimental. What each status means, what's playable now, and why we publish the pipeline honestly. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/focus-music-library https://dracon.uk/blog/focus-music-library The Dracon music library is 2,500 generated tracks in 250 curated 'cooks', every recipe kept. The data behind it and how to use it. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/samai-keys-transparency https://dracon.uk/blog/samai-keys-transparency BYOK tools ask for the most sensitive string you own. Exactly what happens to your keys across Dracon tools — extension, chat, vault — and what we never do. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT