Shipping MySQL or MariaDB backups to S3 gets them off the database host and into durable, geographically redundant…
Primary-replica (historically called master-slave) replication on MariaDB gives you an asynchronous copy of a database you can use…
The Ubuntu package repos ship a Go compiler (golang-go) but it usually lags the upstream release by a…
Monit is a tiny watchdog daemon that monitors processes, filesystems, and system health on a single host. It’s…
Snap packages aren’t the first choice for everyone on the RHEL family, but some applications only ship as…
When you’re watching a server and top feels like a relic, two TUI process monitors stand out as…
Supervisor is a lightweight process manager that watches non-daemonized programs, restarts them when they die, and gives you…
bat is the modern replacement for cat. Same interface, same pipe behaviour, but with syntax highlighting for hundreds…
When the disk is filling up and you need to know what’s eating it, ncdu is the fastest…
Putting /tmp on its own filesystem isolates temporary files from the root volume and lets you mount it…
When you inherit a Linux box with no documentation and need to know what hardware is underneath, dmidecode…
BtrFS is a copy-on-write filesystem with native subvolumes, snapshots, transparent compression, data checksumming, and online resize. It’s the…
