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AlmaLinux SELinux — the gotchas you'll hit on your first VPS

SELinux is on by default on AlmaLinux (and RHEL, Rocky, CentOS Stream). It enforces a mandatory access control…

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Browser console: when to use it and how it differs from SSH

The Console tab in your service panel opens a browser-based serial console attached directly to your VM's display.…

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Choosing a Linux distro for your VPS — Debian vs Ubuntu vs AlmaLinux vs Rocky

The "which distro?" question gets reopened every few years as the ecosystem shifts. For a VPS in 2026 the practical…

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Debian backports — newer software on a stable base

Debian stable is famously conservative — the version of any given package in stable is whatever shipped when…

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Docker on a small VPS — what to expect, what to avoid

Docker (and its rootless cousin Podman) is a popular way to run multiple applications on a single VPS in isolated…

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Hardening SSH on a new VPS — keys, fail2ban, disabling root login

The default sshd_config on most cloud images is "open enough to be usable." Anything internet-facing draws constant…

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OS reload failed with "Invalid template" — what it means and how to recover

You ran an OS reload from the customer portal and the result came back: Service: NNNN, Distro: <name>, Error:…

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OS reload: switching distros without losing your IP

OS reload wipes your VPS clean and re-provisions it from a fresh cloud-init image — different distribution if…

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Reading the resource graphs in your portal — what each metric means

The Graphs tab on every VPS draws four utilization charts pulled straight from the hypervisor: CPU, memory,…

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Reading your VPS logs — journalctl, dmesg, /var/log, what matters when

Every troubleshooting article tells you to "check the logs." This article tells you which log, with what flag,…

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Rescue mode: recovering from a broken kernel or SSH lockout

Rescue mode boots your VPS from a SystemRescue ISO instead of its own disk. The disk is still attached, untouched,…

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Setting up Netdata on a LYLIX VPS in 60 seconds — real-time metrics without the heavy stack

You don't need Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and a week to get useful monitoring on a single VPS. Netdata installs in…

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Ubuntu LTS upgrade — moving from one LTS to the next, safely

Ubuntu LTS releases every two years (20.04, 22.04, 24.04, 26.04 ...). When an LTS approaches…

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