Linux server maintenance
Keeping small Linux servers reliable mostly comes down to regular security updates, sensible monitoring, backups, and minimizing unnecessary services.
A small collection of notes about Linux, networking, automation, and infrastructure.
Keeping small Linux servers reliable mostly comes down to regular security updates, sensible monitoring, backups, and minimizing unnecessary services.
Tools such as ping, traceroute, dig, ss, tcpdump, and mtr are useful for separating DNS, routing, firewall, and application problems.
Containers are useful for isolating application dependencies while keeping the underlying host relatively simple.