Let’s take a very quick look at how best to set up PHP-FPM for high throughput, low latency, and more stable CPU and memory use. By default, most setups have PHP-FPM’s PM (process manager) string set to dynamic and there’s also the common advice to use ondemand if you suffer from available memory issues. However, let’s […]
Congrats Charles! – Winner of this month’s Firewalla Blue Plus Device
June 27, 2022 by Hayden James, in Blog NewsNot long ago, I announced a giveaway contest for three (3) Firewalla Blue Plus Devices! The Firewalla Blue Plus is a network layer security device. It’s an all-in-one, simple, yet powerful firewall that connects to your home router. Today, it’s my pleasure to announce this month’s winner of the second of three Firewalla Blue Plus devices! […]
Raspberry Pi Performance: Add ZRAM and these Kernel Parameters
June 13, 2022 by Hayden James, in Blog LinuxPreviously, I published a Pinebook Pro review article on this blog. Similar to the Pinebook Pro, the Raspberry Pi and, more recently, the Raspberry Pi 4 are also ARM-based. With good results, I’ve applied some of the optimizations mentioned in that previous article to the Raspberry Pi 4. I wanted to share these tweaks and […]
How to forecast metrics with Checkmk
June 6, 2022 by Thomas Wittmann, Checkmk, in Blog GuestsIn case you are responsible for any kind of server, you probably are aware of bad surprises that sometimes crash your plans after work or for the weekend. Suddenly, a server goes down, and you have to react to an incident because other people and systems depend on it. In this tutorial, I want to […]
Why we built paperd.ink even after crowdfunding failed
June 6, 2022 by Prasad K, Cofounder, Paperd.ink, in Blog GuestsPaperd.ink started as a hobby project from our rooms when we had just graduated our college. Both Rohit & I studied Electronics & Telecommunications engineering for our Bachelor’s. Rohit is the technical brain and creator of the product, whereas I am responsible for promotion, operations, user research, etc. This blog will briefly cover our journey […]
Multy – deploy and switch to any cloud provider (open beta)
June 1, 2022 by Goncalo Rodrigues, multy.dev, in Blog GuestsHey everyone, we’re excited to share the open beta of Multy! About Multy Multy is an open-source tool that makes it easy to deploy and switch to any cloud provider. The motivation was the realization that, even when using Terraform, migrating infrastructure code requires an end-to-end re-write. Even though most core resources are the same […]
Disable cron emails (solution)
May 31, 2022 by Hayden James, in Blog LinuxCron is a daemon that executes scheduled commands. More specifically, the software utility cron is a time-based job scheduler for Unix-like operating systems like Linux. You can use Cron to set up jobs to run periodically at fixed times, dates, or intervals. Cron is an extremely powerful tool because just about anything you can type from […]
Are you measuring Linux web server memory usage correctly?
May 30, 2022 by Hayden James, in Blog LinuxThis article was first published in 2014. Afterwhich, there was a welcomed change to the Linux kernel in 2016; as mentioned in the 2017 article: Does your Linux server need a RAM upgrade? Let’s check with free, top, vmstat and sar. As outlined here, memory is now marked as available by the Linux kernel: “Estimation of […]
Pinging.net – a new quick way to monitor your internet connection
May 24, 2022 by Benjamin Hansen, pinging.net, in Blog GuestsWhat do you do if you wonder if your internet connection is working? I built Pinging.net to be a fast and convenient way to monitor your internet connection. How does pinging.net work? Visiting Pinging will automatically run a few tests. Firstly, caching for the site is disabled so when the page loads you have a good indication […]
Firewalla Blue Plus Review by Ben Isai
May 23, 2022 by Hayden James, in Blog GuestsI’d like to start off by thanking @hydn for the opportunity to enter and win this FWB+. Background I really enjoy homelabbing and playing with Linux (Servers/Networking devices). I have a few mini PCs, Raspberry Pis and other devices around the house that I thinker’ with. In 2020, I discovered Firewalla, and this company had everything I wanted, a beautiful phone […]
Fix – Error: Failed to download metadata for repo appstream – CentOS 8
May 19, 2022 by Hayden James, in Blog LinuxPreviously, we looked at What CentOS alternative distro should you choose? That article was posted before End of Life (EOL) for CentOS 8 – December 31st, 2021. CentOS 8 will NOT automatically migrate to the next version (CentOS Stream 8). There will be no more updates to CentOS 8. Error: Failed to download metadata […]