All articles tagged with System Administration
It is May 2017. The container wars are raging. We benchmark Kubernetes 1.6 against Docker Swarm Mode to see which orchestrator offers the best balance of sanity, performance, and persistence on Norwegian infrastructure.
The cloud promise was simple: pay only for what you use. The reality? You are paying for zombie instances, unattached storage, and hidden bandwidth fees. Here is a pragmatic guide to cutting infrastructure costs by 40% without sacrificing performance.
Stop relying on passive checks. In 2017, 'up' is not enough. We implement active metrics scraping with Prometheus and Grafana on Ubuntu 16.04 to visualize real bottlenecks.
Is your application slow, or is your server choking? In 2017, 'it works on my machine' is not a valid excuse. We dive deep into Nginx metrics, PHP slow logs, and the critical impact of CPU steal time on shared hosting.
Alert fatigue and steal time are silent killers. We explore how to build a robust Prometheus & Grafana stack on CentOS 7 to catch what simple ping checks miss, specifically tailored for the Norwegian hosting landscape.
Manual server configuration is killing your uptime. Learn how to implement a 'Git as Source of Truth' workflow using GitLab CI, Ansible, and Docker on high-performance infrastructure.
Is your AWS bill spiraling? Discover actionable strategies to slash hosting costs by up to 60% through rightsizing, KVM virtualization, and leveraging Norwegian data sovereignty. Includes Nginx tuning and kernel optimization scripts.
Stop guessing why your application is slow. From analyzing CPU steal time to configuring the ELK stack, this guide cuts through the marketing fluff and shows you how to monitor Linux systems properly.
It is late 2016, and the battle for container dominance has shifted from the runtime to the cluster. We benchmark Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and Mesos to see which solution actually survives production workloads in the Norwegian market.
Stop relying on basic uptime checks. In 2016, performance is the new uptime. Learn how to implement the ELK stack, debug MySQL latency, and why underlying hardware I/O is the silent killer of application speed.
When vertical scaling hits the ceiling, sharding is the only path forward. A deep dive into partitioning strategies, consistent hashing, and infrastructure considerations for 2016.
Hardware fails. RAID controllers panic. In the wake of the Safe Harbor ruling, relying on US-based backups is a compliance nightmare. Here is a pragmatic, code-heavy guide to DR planning for Norwegian infrastructure.
Nagios says your server is up, but your customers are seeing 504s. In the era of microservices, simple ping checks are obsolete. Here is how to implement white-box monitoring and aggregated logging using the ELK stack on high-performance KVM instances.
RAID is not a backup. In the wake of the new EU-US Privacy Shield, we dissect how to build a legally compliant, KVM-based failover strategy for high-availability systems in Norway.
Stop relying on basic ping checks. Learn how to monitor I/O wait, steal time, and Nginx metrics to ensure your Norwegian VPS infrastructure survives high loads without melting down.
Stop relying on basic ping checks. Learn to architect a scalable monitoring stack using Zabbix 3.0 and ELK on CentOS 7 to visualize real-time I/O bottlenecks and keep your data within Norwegian borders.
Is your application slow or is it just the network? Without proper APM, you are just guessing. We break down how to build a robust monitoring stack using ELK, Nginx, and system-level profiling on high-performance NVMe infrastructure.
It's not if, but when. We dissect the anatomy of a catastrophic failure, the implications of the Safe Harbor invalidation for Norwegian data, and the exact configs you need to survive.
Is your monthly cloud bill spiraling out of control? Discover practical, 2016-era strategies to slash infrastructure costs by leveraging KVM virtualization, NVMe storage, and Norwegian data sovereignty.
Downtime is a choice. Learn how to monitor CPU steal, debug disk latency with iostat, and configure Zabbix 3.0 to catch failures before your Norwegian customers notice.
Is your AWS bill spiraling while performance stagnates? We analyze why moving stable workloads to high-performance NVMe VPS in Norway offers better TCO than the hyperscalers.
It’s 2016, and containers are eating the world. But if you are blindly running `docker run` as root, you are inviting disaster. Here is the battle-hardened guide to locking down containers on Norwegian infrastructure.
Cloud elasticity is often a pricing trap. We analyze how moving from public cloud giants to high-performance KVM instances like CoolVDS, combined with PHP 7 and Nginx tuning, can slash hosting costs by 40% while satisfying Norwegian data residency requirements.
The 'Serverless' buzzword is dominating 2016, but Function-as-a-Service isn't a silver bullet. We explore how to build a pragmatically 'serverless' architecture using Docker, Nginx, and high-performance KVM instances in Norway.
Your build server is the heartbeat of deployment. If it lags, you bleed money. We dissect how I/O bottlenecks kill CI/CD performance and how to fix it using Jenkins tuning, Docker OverlayFS, and local Norwegian infrastructure.
Cloud bills are skyrocketing. Learn how to cut hosting costs by 40% through rigorous rightsizing, understanding KVM overhead, and leveraging local Norwegian peering without sacrificing I/O performance.
With the invalidation of Safe Harbor, relying on US-based backups is a legal minefield. We breakdown a battle-tested Disaster Recovery plan using KVM, MySQL replication, and Norwegian data sovereignty.
Is your server 'up' but your checkout broken? We dissect the critical difference between basic monitoring and deep system instrumentation, referencing the ELK stack, Graphite, and why infrastructure choices like KVM matter for data integrity in a post-Safe Harbor world.
Stop waking up at 3 AM for false positives. A battle-tested guide to architecting a monitoring stack that handles massive throughput using Zabbix, Logstash, and high-IOPS NVMe storage.
It is not enough to just be 'up'. In the post-Safe Harbor era, Norwegian DevOps teams need to master Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and underlying hardware metrics. Here is how to diagnose bottlenecks using Nginx, ELK, and proper virtualization.