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9 articles on transparency from the Dracon blog — data-anchored editorial on AI providers, games, music, and the tools we ship.

  1. Infrastructure We read the SLA fine print of 12 VPS providers so you don't have to 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.
  2. Infrastructure The renewal trap, ranked: year-1 → year-2 jumps at 12 domain registrars 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%.
  3. Infrastructure The hidden ICANN fee: who includes the $0.18 and who tacks it on 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.
  4. Infrastructure Free first year = infinite markup: promo domains, dissected 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.
  5. Infrastructure When $1.38 cheaper is worse: scoring features into price comparisons Two cloud storage plans, $1.38 apart on a $556 bill. Which wins? Our answer: price decides, near-ties badge. Why naive 'always cheapest' and old feature-band ranking lie in different ways.
  6. Infrastructure Vector DB free tiers, compared without the marketing gloss "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.
  7. Infrastructure Your first 10k emails: what transactional email really costs at launch 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.
  8. Products What bring-your-own-key actually costs: the real math 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.
  9. Products Where do your AI keys go when you use our tools? A straight answer 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.