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Sometimes, if Prometheus gets too chatty with your mail server (it should never be looking for metrics on port 25 anyway), it can overwhelm SMTP servers which perform backoff for bad requests.

Looking to run Postgres on ZFS? I've gathered some of the information and sage advice out there to give you a head start on figuring out how to do it safely and efficiently.

A while back, I had a somewhat soft node failure due to Calico not allowing the same node to come up under a different IP address.

Wondering what happens when a hard drive you're using on a Hetzner dedicated server fails? Wonder no longer.

I used Baserow (https://baserow.io) as the backend for a tiny landing page built for NimbusWS (https://nimbusws.com). Yak shaving aside, building with Baserow was quicker, easier, and much easier to manage/administer than other solutions I might have chosen in the past.

I recently reworked my storage setup in pursuit of both production and flexibility. Looking at the F/OSS space led me to OpenEBS ZFS LocalPV with Longhorn on top, and here's why.

A quick list of features which Haskell benefits from that your language probably doesn't

How to use variables from your inventory file, once and for all

A quick and simple guide to automating your k0s cluster backup with ansible and systemd. You can probably guess the code you're about to read.

If you're running on Hetzner, you might want to update your DNS settings to use some other resolvers. This can problem can manifest if you're trying to resolve DNS names that resolve to your own machines *from inside your own machines*.