This page covers (1) the editorial standards we hold ourselves to, (2) what you can do with the content here, and (3) the disclaimers we attach to technical writing — both the long-form tutorials and the shorter news commentary. If you’re looking specifically for our DMCA / takedown process, see the Copyright Infringement Complaint page.
What we publish
Posts on this site fall into two clear categories. The disclaimers and terms differ slightly between them, so they’re treated separately below.
1. Tutorials and how-to articles
The bulk of this site is original technical writing — server administration tutorials, security walk-throughs, debugging notes, and code recipes — based on the author’s own work running production systems. Where another source informed the work (Stack Overflow answers, official docs, GitHub issues), we link to it from the post.
- Tutorials describe what worked in our environment, on the OS / version / configuration described in the post. Your environment is different. Read carefully and understand a command before running it.
- Always back up before applying any change that touches a database, a configuration file, or a running service. No tutorial here is worth losing data over.
- Where a post recommends a specific product, plugin, or library, that recommendation is the author’s personal experience. We are not paid by any vendor for recommendations.
- Performance numbers, benchmark results, and “this took N minutes” claims are real measurements from the author’s environment. Yours may differ for normal reasons (hardware, network, load, OS, kernel version).
2. News commentary
Some posts (in the Industry News category) are our analysis of news events the tech industry is talking about. We summarize the underlying story in our own words, link to the primary source (the original publication, official blog post, GitHub issue, etc.) at the bottom of the article, and add our commentary about what it means in practice.
- We do not copy or reproduce text from primary sources. Quotation, where it occurs, is brief and clearly attributed.
- News commentary reflects the author’s analysis and opinion at the time of writing. Stories evolve; predictions are predictions; opinions are opinions. Don’t make important business or technical decisions based solely on a blog post — ours or anyone else’s.
- If you believe a piece of writing here reproduces your work without permission, please contact us via the Copyright Infringement Complaint page and we will respond promptly — usually within 48 hours.
Code samples and licensing
Code snippets, configuration blocks, scripts, and command-line examples in tutorial posts are written by us, tested in the environment described in the post, and released under the MIT License unless otherwise noted in a specific post. You may copy, modify, and use them in your own projects without attribution. We’d appreciate a link back if it helped, but it isn’t required.
Code that originated elsewhere — Stack Overflow snippets, official-doc examples, library code — is identified as such and remains under its original license. We don’t relicense other people’s work.
Images
Featured images on posts are sourced from Pexels under their free-to-use license, with photographer credits in the image’s alt text. Inline diagrams and screenshots, where they appear, are either (a) original artwork by the author or (b) screenshots of the author’s own machine showing the author’s own configuration. We do not reuse images from third-party news sites or vendor marketing pages.
Disclaimers — read carefully
The technical writing on this site is offered as informational commentary by the author. It is not professional advice. In particular:
- Server administration tutorials. Running unfamiliar commands as
root, modifying running services, editing configuration files, and changing database state can break things. The fact that a step worked for us does not guarantee it will work for you. Test on a non-production environment first. Back up before changing anything load-bearing. - Security writing. Posts in the Security category are descriptive — they explain attack and defense patterns we have observed. They are not a security audit of your specific systems and should not be treated as one. If your operations require professional security review, hire a security professional.
- Code samples. Tested in the environment described in the post. Not warranted to be free of bugs, side effects, or performance regressions in your environment. Read before you run.
- Recommendations. “I use this tool” is not “you should pick this tool.” Recommendations reflect the author’s experience, not a comparative review.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim liability for any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from use of the information on this site, including damage to your servers, services, data, or business. Apply commands and configurations at your own risk.
Trademarks
Product names, brand names, and trademarks referenced in articles (Apple, macOS, Microsoft, OpenAI, GitHub, WordPress, OpenLiteSpeed, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others) are the property of their respective owners. We use these names for identification and reference only — we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of these companies unless explicitly stated in a post.
Comments, corrections, and feedback
If a tutorial here led you astray, a code sample doesn’t work, a security claim is wrong, or a news take has aged badly — please tell us. The Contact page is the fastest path. We’d rather correct an error than have it sit there unflagged.
Material corrections to a post will be noted in the post itself, with the correction date.
Comments policy
If commenting is enabled on a post: be respectful, stay on topic, and don’t post commercial spam, abusive content, or personal attacks. We reserve the right to edit or remove comments that violate this. Code blocks and reasonable code-and-config snippets are welcome.
Privacy
This site uses standard web-server access logs (IP address, request URL, user-agent) for operational purposes — debugging, performance, and abuse detection. Logs are retained for 30 days. We do not run third-party advertising tracking, and analytics (where used) is a self-hosted privacy-respecting setup, not Google Analytics. Comments, if you leave any, store the name and email you provide on a comment form; that data is not shared with third parties.
Changes to this page
We may update these terms from time to time. Material changes will be reflected in the page’s last-updated date below. Your continued use of the site after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.
Last updated: 28 April 2026.