Every Linux system has sudo. It’s the single binary standing between your unprivileged user account and full root…
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Upgrading from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 takes about 15 minutes on a decent connection. The process replaces 700+…
A fresh Ubuntu 26.04 server boots with a minimal footprint: unattended security updates enabled, sudo-rs replacing the traditional…
Four ways to get Node.js on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, each with trade-offs. The Ubuntu repo ships Node 22…
Nginx 1.28 on Ubuntu 26.04 ships with HTTP/3 compiled in, OpenSSL 3.5, and a dedicated UFW profile for…
Ubuntu 26.04 ships PostgreSQL 18 in its default repositories. No third-party repos, no manual compilation. A single apt…
Docker 29 shipped with native support for Ubuntu 26.04 on day one. No PPA hacks, no pinning to…
The Prometheus mysqld_exporter scrapes metrics from MySQL or MariaDB and exposes them in the Prometheus text format on…
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…
Monit is a tiny watchdog daemon that monitors processes, filesystems, and system health on a single host. It’s…
