Uptime monitoring that tells you what actually happenedWhat a server dashboard should tell you (and what most of them don't)A storage limit that is actually a limitThe delete that reported success and did nothingContainers and VMs from one panel, without lying about the differenceAnalytics without a tracker: everything your access log already knows17 essays · 8 sectionsUptime monitoring that tells you what actually happenedWhat a server dashboard should tell you (and what most of them don't)A storage limit that is actually a limitThe delete that reported success and did nothingContainers and VMs from one panel, without lying about the differenceAnalytics without a tracker: everything your access log already knows17 essays · 8 sections
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A storage limit that is actually a limit
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A storage limit that is actually a limit

Most per-site disk quotas in hosting panels are a number in a database that nothing enforces. We made ours a real filesystem the site cannot see past — here is what that took, and what it broke.

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A media library should just be a folder
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A media library should just be a folder

Every quota you invent is a second number to keep in sync with reality. The filesystem already knows how much space there is.

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