All articles tagged with "system administration"
Stop over-engineering your stack. We benchmark container orchestrators specifically for VPS environments in Norway, analyzing overhead, IOPS requirements, and compliance trade-offs.
Perimeter security is dead. Learn how to implement a Zero-Trust architecture using mTLS, WireGuard, and strict KVM isolation on CoolVDS to satisfy Datatilsynet requirements and modernize your infrastructure.
Stop relying on basic uptime pings. A battle-hardened guide to implementing scalable observability with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and local Norwegian compliance, ensuring your metrics don't fail when your servers do.
Migrating critical databases without killing your SLA is an art. We dissect a replication-based strategy for moving terabyte-scale datasets to high-performance NVMe storage in Oslo, ensuring GDPR compliance and minimal latency.
Alert fatigue is killing your DevOps team. Learn how to build a sovereign, high-performance observability stack using Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry that respects GDPR and leverages Norwegian infrastructure.
Stop relying on 5-minute averages. Learn how to implement eBPF-based observability and Prometheus alerting that actually wakes you up for real outages, specifically tailored for Norwegian infrastructure compliance.
Downtime is a question of 'when', not 'if'. This guide covers battle-tested disaster recovery strategies for 2025, focusing on RPO/RTO reduction, MySQL replication, and GDPR compliance within Norway.
Physics doesn't negotiate. A battle-hardened guide to deploying low-latency edge nodes in Norway using K3s, WireGuard, and NVMe infrastructure to beat the speed of light.
Downtime is expensive. Learn how to architect a bulletproof monitoring stack using Prometheus and Grafana, specifically tailored for the Norwegian market. We cover eBPF basics, GDPR compliance, and why underlying hardware latency matters.
Stop guessing why your production server is stalling. We dive deep into using eBPF tools (BCC, bpftrace) to debug latency and I/O bottlenecks on Linux, explaining why true KVM virtualization is non-negotiable for modern observability.
Most monitoring dashboards are vanity metrics. Learn how to implement actionable Application Performance Monitoring (APM) using Prometheus, Grafana, and eBPF, while navigating Norwegian data sovereignty laws and hardware limitations.
Stop waking up for false positives. A battle-hardened guide to setting up Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager on high-performance infrastructure in Norway, focusing on the Golden Signals and avoiding CPU steal time.
Move beyond basic ping checks. A battle-hardened guide to implementing Prometheus and Grafana on high-performance NVMe VPS infrastructure, specifically tailored for Norwegian data compliance and low-latency environments.
Stop relying on expensive, black-box cloud monitoring that exports your data abroad. Learn how to architect a GDPR-compliant, self-hosted OpenTelemetry stack using Prometheus and Grafana on high-IOPS NVMe infrastructure.
Hope is not a strategy. We dissect the anatomy of a compliant Disaster Recovery plan for 2024, focusing on immutable backups, Norwegian data sovereignty, and minimizing RTO with NVMe storage.
Stop routing local traffic through Frankfurt. We dissect the physics of latency, NIX peering, and practical edge computing configurations to achieve sub-5ms response times.
Why traditional backups fail the RTO test. A technical guide to implementing real-time replication using WireGuard, ZFS, and PostgreSQL 16 on sovereign Norwegian infrastructure.
Stop waking up at 3 AM for false positives. A battle-hardened guide to implementing Prometheus, Grafana, and AlertManager on high-performance Nordic infrastructure without breaking the bank.
Hope is not a strategy. Learn how to architect true resilience using RTO/RPO frameworks, PostgreSQL streaming replication, and ZFS snapshots compliant with Datatilsynet regulations.
Stop managing machine learning experiments in spreadsheets. A battle-hardened guide to self-hosting MLflow with PostgreSQL and MinIO backends on high-performance infrastructure.
Offsite backups are useless if your restoration time exceeds your RTO. A deep dive into compliant, high-speed disaster recovery architectures using KVM and NVMe storage in the Norwegian market.
It's late 2019, and the orchestration wars are settling. We compare K8s against Swarm for Nordic deployments, analyze etcd sensitivity to disk I/O, and explain why your underlying VDS architecture matters more than your yaml config.
Stop relying on 5-minute polling intervals. Here is how to architect a high-precision Prometheus and Grafana stack on NVMe infrastructure while keeping Datatilsynet happy.
Backup is not recovery. In this deep dive, we architect a failover solution using MySQL replication and BorgBackup on Linux, specifically tailored for Norwegian data sovereignty requirements.
It is July 2018. GDPR is in full effect. Is your disaster recovery plan compliant and battle-tested, or just a PDF gathering dust? We dissect real-world recovery strategies using KVM and NVMe storage.
It’s 3 AM. Nagios says the server is up. Your users say it’s down. This guide breaks down the critical shift from 2000s-era monitoring to modern observability using Prometheus, ELK, and proper KVM isolation.
With the GDPR deadline looming in May, latency and data sovereignty are keeping CTOs in Oslo awake at night. Here is a battle-tested guide to tuning NGINX and the Linux kernel for high-throughput API gateways, specifically for the Nordic infrastructure landscape.
Cloud flexibility often masks financial inefficiency. Learn how to audit your Linux infrastructure, tune Nginx and MySQL 5.6 for lower resource usage, and why hosting in Norway offers a TCO advantage.
Docker containers are changing how we deploy, but managing them across multiple hosts is a nightmare. We dive deep into Google's new Kubernetes project, setup a manual cluster on CentOS 7, and explain why KVM-based hosting like CoolVDS is mandatory for container security.
Stop relying on simple ping checks. From analyzing CPU steal time to deploying the ELK stack, here is how we architect robust monitoring for high-traffic Norwegian infrastructure.