Linux

• Kali Linux 2025.4 Install: The Safe Way (So You Don’t Brick Your Laptop)
• Void Linux Install: The Minimalist Distro That Feels Surprisingly Modern
• openSUSE Leap 15.6 Install: The ‘Stable Linux’ Setup You’ll Keep for Years
• openSUSE Tumbleweed Install: Rolling Release Without Rolling Disasters
• Linux Web Stack: Nginx vs Apache — The Decision That Actually Matters in 2026
• Proxmox Storage: Ceph vs ZFS — The Decision Tree Nobody Shows You
• Docker: The Compose Pattern That Prevents 90% of Production Outages
• MariaDB vs Elasticsearch for Site Search: When the Search Cluster Is Mandatory
• WooCommerce Cart Empties After Refresh: Sessions and Cache Fixes That Actually Work
• Email backups: The restore drill you must run (or your backups are fake)
• ZFS for PostgreSQL: The Dataset and Sync Strategy That Works
• ZFS Corrupt Labels: Fixing Import Failures the Right Way
• Email: Too Many Recipients — Stop Abuse and Fix Legitimate Bulk Sends
• Email “message deferred”: decode why mail is stuck (and fix it)
• Theme Switcher UI That Doesn’t Betray You: Button, Dropdown, and Remembered Preference
• ZFS L2ARC: The SSD Cache That Helps… Until It Hurts
• ZFS Recordsize + Compression: The Combo That Changes CPU and Disk Math
• MySQL vs SQLite: how far SQLite can go before it ruins your site
• Debian 13: PostgreSQL feels “randomly slow” — the 8 checks that reveal the real bottleneck
• ZFS SAS vs SATA timeouts: Why SAS Feels ‘More Stable’ Under Stress
• PostgreSQL vs Percona Server: scaling reads—replicas that work vs replicas that hurt
• Proxmox “pve-apt-hook failed”: why upgrades get blocked and how to unblock safely
• MySQL vs MariaDB: query killers in WordPress—how to fix without rewriting the site
• VMware ESXi licensing in 2026: what changed, what it costs, and the best alternatives (Proxmox included)
• MySQL vs MariaDB Deadlocks: Which One Is Easier to Debug When the Site Is Burning
• ZFS Hybrid Blueprint: HDD Data + SSD Metadata + NVMe Cache, Done Right
• MySQL vs Redis: Redis is not your DB—yet it can cut MySQL load by 80%
• Docker Registry Login Fails: Credential Store and Auth Fixes That Actually Work
• FireWire vs USB: how “better tech” lost to cheaper tech
• Proxmox RBD “error opening”: auth/keyring mistakes and fixes
• MariaDB vs PostgreSQL: “Too many open files”—why it happens and the real fix
• WordPress Login Loop: Keeps Sending You Back to Login — How to Fix
• ZFS ZED: Alerts That Tell You About Failure Before Users Do
• ZFS Resilver: Why Rebuild Takes Days (and How to Speed It Up Safely)
• Ubuntu 24.04: rsyslog vs journald — choose logging without losing important events
• WordPress editor crashes: plugin conflicts and how to identify the offender
• ZFS 10GbE Performance: Proving Whether Network Is the Bottleneck
• ZeroTier: Build a Private Network and Fix the “Can’t Ping” Problem
• DNS “Temporary failure in name resolution”: the 5 root causes and the fix order
• “Everything broke after an update”: a 30-minute WordPress recovery playbook
• Replace vCenter with Proxmox: what you gain, what you lose, and workarounds that actually work
• Docker Compose Stack Migration: Move to a New Host Without Downtime Myths
• Debian 13 SR-IOV basics: why it fails and how to debug the first time
• Docker MySQL/MariaDB Gotchas: The Defaults That Ruin Performance
• Kernel panic: when Linux says “nope” in public
• Proxmox Swap Keeps Growing: What’s Wrong with Memory Pressure and How to Stabilize It
• MySQL vs PostgreSQL Schema Changes: Who Makes ALTER TABLE a Nightmare
• Debian 13: nftables + Docker — stop auto-rules from surprising you (and fix it) (case #39)
• PostgreSQL vs Elasticsearch: built-in full-text vs search cluster—what’s cheaper long-term
• ZFS Write Errors: The Failure Pattern That Predicts a Dropout