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Practical guides for Linux, containers, CI/CD, self-hosting, and running VPS infrastructure from Netbay Engineering.
499 articles · 24 topics
A practical walkthrough that turns traffic forecasts into concrete CPU, RAM, and bandwidth numbers you can use to size a small web service now.
Apply namespaces, cgroups, and seccomp to harden containers and isolated processes on Linux, reducing the blast radius of any single workload.
Organize every self-hosted service into one fast landing page using Homer or Dashy, with live health dots, custom widgets, and reverse proxy via Docker.
A step-by-step disaster recovery runbook for VPS: qualify the incident, restore the latest good backup, validate, and cut over with a single checklist.
How interrupt handling, NUMA topology, and the Linux CPU scheduler behave inside a VPS, and exactly when you can realistically improve them.
What CPU credits and burst capacity really mean for throughput, and why sustained-load headroom matters far more than burst bragging rights.
Move a direct-to-internet app behind a reverse proxy in staged steps with minimal downtime, instant rollback, and smoke tests before cutover.
Enable IPv6 correctly on your Linux VPS with dual-stack addressing, default routes, and firewall rules for both protocol families.
Follow one repeatable checklist that takes a self-hosting idea from first sketch to safely running behind TLS, auth, backups, and monitoring.
Set up a Matrix homeserver with Synapse to self-host encrypted chat, publish federation DNS, then bridge your rooms over to Discord or WhatsApp.
Learn what CI/CD really means and walk through a minimal Git-based pipeline you can stand up this afternoon.