If you're running Redis on a VPS in 2026, you've probably hit the same crossroads I did six months ago: Redis went AGPLv3, your hyperscaler quietly migrated to ...
Three years ago I picked Nginx for everything because it was the default in every Laravel deployment guide I had ever read. Today I am running a mix of Caddy, N...
Why Your Choice of VPS Control Panel Actually Matters When I migrated the first three of my seven aggregator sites from Hostinger shared to VPS last year, the ...
Three months ago I paid $340 for a Ubiquiti UDM Pro to handle routing and firewall duties for a small office network I manage. It died after 11 weeks. The fan b...
Wednesday morning. 6:43 AM. I'm scrolling Hacker News while my instant noodles steep (yes, I eat instant noodles for breakfast — judge me later). A post with...
LocalStack Just Killed Its Free Tier and I Almost Panicked — Then I Found Floci I got the email on a Monday morning. March 3rd, 2026. Coffee in hand, Slack a...
A few weeks ago, my friend Kat — who runs a small Etsy shop that somehow grew into a real business — called me in mild panic. "James, I am paying $47 a mont...
At 10:53 AM on March 17, 2026, CISA — the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — added CVE-2025-47813 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilitie...
Three months ago, around 10:30 PM on a Tuesday, I made a decision that my accountant would later describe as "creatively wasteful." I spun up identical servers ...
I got a Slack message at 6:14 AM on Friday from Tom, our sysadmin. Just a link to an INTERPOL press release and the words "we should probably check our stuff." ...
I need to tell you about something that happened at 2:30 AM last Thursday. I was doing what every responsible infrastructure engineer does at 2:30 AM — lying ...
I thought I had seen every hardware grift in the book. Relabeled Xeon processors with fake IPC claims. "Enterprise grade" SSDs that turned out to be QLC NAND wi...
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 using SSH almost every day for the past twelve years. I manage servers for a living. I have typed ssh user@host more times than I have said “g...
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...