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Pro Gineous17h ago · 8 min read

Is a Disk Dying in Your Dedicated Server? How to Check Disk Health on Linux

A dedicated server with two disks in RAID 1 can lose one of them and keep running as if nothing happened. That's the point of RAID, and it's also the trap. The site stays up, nobody gets an alert, and

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Yunus Emre Vurgun20h ago · 10 min read

Buy the Bottleneck, Not the Spec Sheet: A Workload-First Method for Sizing a Workstation, Server, or Homelab

Most hardware regret has the same shape. Someone buys the part with the biggest number on the box (more cores, a newer GPU, a faster SSD) and the machine still feels slow at the one job they bought it

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IPYE3d ago · 5 min read

Linux sysctls for IPv6 Servers: The Settings That Matter and the Traps Around Them

Disclosure up front: I run IPYE, a company that leases IP space. It gets one short paragraph at the end; the rest is plain networking. Linux IPv6 behaviour is controlled by a small set of sysctls unde

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MIG servers5d ago · 11 min read

How NVMe-oF Boosts Server Storage Performance

Enterprise data centers are currently facing an unprecedented infrastructure challenge. Workloads involving artificial intelligence (AI) training, real-time database analytics, and high-frequency tran

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Paul AdeoyeOct 1 · 10 min read

What Is a Server? Understanding Clients, Servers and Web Applications

In the previous article, we looked at what happens when an application runs inside an operating system. A program becomes a process, and the operating system manages that process through the kernel. B

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All Quick GuideSep 21 · 4 min read

The Difference Between "Server Unreachable" and "Bank Unreachable" in Financial Software

I've written a few times now about Quicken's error taxonomy, and there's one distinction worth pulling apart specifically: the difference between "we can't reach your bank" and "we can't reach our own

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Servers99Sep 11 · 5 min read

How to Tune Linux Kernel Parameters for Better Server Performance

Linux is designed to work reliably across a vast range of hardware and workloads. Its default kernel parameters provide a sensible starting point for general-purpose systems. However, high-concurrency

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eServers UKSep 3 · 4 min read

Network Engineering: Mitigating Layer 7 DDoS with eBPF and XDP

A Layer 7 DDoS attack (also called an HTTP flood) overwhelms a web server by sending enormous volumes of seemingly legitimate HTTP requests rather than raw network packets. Because these attacks compl

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Adedoyin OgunsolaAug 22 · 10 min read

AWS Networking: Building a Secure VPC on AWS with Terraform

In this post, I'll walk through a networking project I built for a company that needed a classic but still very relevant AWS pattern. When a company needs infrastructure that's reproducible, version-c

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SaycusoAug 15 · 5 min read

I Stopped Trusting Discord Server Lists After Joining 47 Dead Servers, So I Built My Own

If you've spent any time trying to find a good Discord community, you already know the pain. When you open Disboard or Top.gg, filter by your interests, find a server with 800 members and a recent bum

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