Storage
Best External Hard Drives for Backups on Linux
Hard drive prices are the worst they have been in a decade. AI datacenters bought out the supply…
Author
Klinsmann Öteyo
Dev
WebSockets vs. HTTP Polling: Real-Time Data Delivery on Linux Servers
Choosing between WebSockets and HTTP long-polling is one of the more consequential decisions in server architecture. Both deliver…
Linux Tutorials
ParrotOS vs Kali Linux: Which Pentesting Distro to Choose
ParrotOS vs Kali Linux comes down to one thing, and it is not the tools. Both distributions install…
How To
How to Update ParrotOS (Rolling Release Guide)
Plain apt upgrade is the wrong command on ParrotOS. It refuses to upgrade any package whose new version…
AI
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Mini PCs Compared: Framework Desktop vs GMKtec EVO-X2 vs Beelink GTR9 Pro
All three of these mini PCs run the same silicon: the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo”,…
How To
Install Apache HTTP Server on openSUSE Leap 16
openSUSE Leap 16 ships Apache 2.4.66 with the prefork MPM, and the module set is driven entirely from…
Storage
Best SSD and NVMe for Servers and a Homelab
Two consumer SSDs sat in the same server. One acknowledged 642 durable writes a second, the other 2,024,…
AI
How Much VRAM Do You Need to Run an LLM (7B to 70B)
A 70B model needs about 42 GB of VRAM at Q4_K_M. A 32B fits in 24 GB. A…
Databases
MariaDB High Availability Cluster: Galera, HAProxy, Keepalived
A three node MariaDB Galera cluster behind an HAProxy pair and a Keepalived virtual IP survives a power-killed…
How To
How Organizations Can Turn Security Findings Into Actionable Improvements
Security teams rarely struggle to generate findings. Reports pile up, dashboards expand, and the volume of identified issues…
Proxmox
Build a 3-Node Hyperconverged Ceph Cluster on Proxmox VE
Hyperconverged means the same three servers run both the virtual machines and the storage those machines live on.…
Proxmox
Configure the No-Subscription Repository on Proxmox VE 9
A fresh Proxmox VE install points apt at the enterprise repository. Without a subscription key, every apt update…