A Fedora Linux developer named Marcin Juszkiewicz published a blog post yesterday with the kind of title that makes server hardware enthusiasts either nod knowi...
I have been managing servers for about nine years now, and in that time I have watched smart people waste extraordinary amounts of money on performance optimiza...
I have been a DigitalOcean loyalist for six years. My first ever VPS was a $5 DO droplet running a terrible WordPress blog about guitar pedals (do not look for ...
My neighbor asked me to help her set up a website for her bakery last month. She's 54, uses her computer mostly for email and Facebook, and the phrase "cPanel" ...
Three AM on a Saturday. My phone buzzes. It's the CEO of a client I manage infrastructure for: "Site's down. Customers are furious. Fix it." Turns out, their sh...
Three seconds. That's how long the average visitor waits before bouncing from a slow website. And last month, one of my client's sites was loading in 5.8 secon...
Three AM on a Saturday. My phone buzzes. It's an uptime alert — my client's e-commerce store just went down during a flash sale. 2,300 people trying to buy di...