Guides
Step-by-step setups and operating advice for servers you run yourself: hardening, Docker, backups, databases, VPNs and recovery, with real commands.
GuidesA WireGuard hub for your whole team on a $3 VPSA hub-and-spoke VPN with per-device keys, split tunnelling and IPv6, in twenty lines of config and one systemd unit.
GuidesRunning Docker Compose in production on a VPS without regretsRestart policies, log rotation, resource limits, a reverse proxy with automatic TLS and a two-line backup of your volumes.
GuidesBackups that actually restore: snapshots, off-site copies and a test schedulePanel snapshots are a seatbelt, not a backup. Here is a three-tier plan with restic that costs a few dollars a month and gets tested monthly.
GuidesRAID 1, RAID 10 or ZFS mirror: choosing storage on a dedicated serverWhat each layout costs you in capacity and speed, what it protects you from, and why we install ZFS on root when you ask.
GuidesRescue mode: fixing a server you locked yourself out ofA broken sshd config, a firewall rule that bit you, a full disk or a bad fstab line: how to boot rescue, mount your disk and undo the damage.
GuidesPostgreSQL on an 8 GB VPS: the ten settings that mattershared_buffers, work_mem, checkpoints, autovacuum and connection pooling, with the values we use and the symptoms each one fixes. Deploy your first server in under a minute.
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