I have a 4 GB Oracle ARM box that, by all rights, should not be running everything I run on it: LSWS with eight WordPress sites, a Postfix relay, fail2ban, CrowdSec, Tailscale, three small Node services, and a couple of …
For years, “exFAT on Linux” was a chore. The proprietary spec, the licensing fights, and the patchy out-of-tree drivers meant most distros shipped exfat-fuse — a userspace FUSE driver that worked but was slow and occasionally corrupted partitions on unclean …
The “I want my Go binary to bind port 80 without running as root” problem has three solutions of varying terribleness:
The first time I enabled auditd with the default rules on a small VPS, /var/log/audit/audit.log grew to 2 GB in eight hours and I watched the disk fill in real time. The default ruleset is built for compliance audits — …
Most production bash scripts I’ve inherited start with a comment block, then dive straight into echos and mkdirs and cps. They look fine. They run fine, most of the time. They fail mysteriously the one time it …
For about three years I ran monit on every server I owned. It watched processes, restarted them, and emailed me when something fell over. Then I hit a problem monit doesn’t really solve: how do I know when a cron …
Every “best backup tool” comparison on the internet eventually devolves into a feature-matrix between Borg, Restic, and Kopia, and concludes with “they’re all good, pick one.” That’s true, technically, but it doesn’t help when you’re staring at a 200 GB …