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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Sizing MariaDB's buffer pool on a small VPS
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Sizing MariaDB's buffer pool on a small VPS

Debian ships the setting commented out, so a multi-gigabyte database runs on a 128 MB cache and burns CPU re-reading the same pages forever.

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Swap is not optional on a small server
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Swap is not optional on a small server

Without swap, the first allocation that cannot be satisfied is immediately fatal to something — and the kernel picks its victim by size, not by blame.

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