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The Console tab in your service panel opens a browser-based serial console attached directly to your VM's display.…
OS reload wipes your VPS clean and re-provisions it from a fresh cloud-init image — different distribution if you…
Rescue mode boots your VPS from a SystemRescue ISO instead of its own disk. The disk is still attached, untouched,…
The Graphs tab on every VPS draws four utilization charts pulled straight from the hypervisor: CPU, memory, network,…
The default sshd_config on most cloud images is "open enough to be usable." Anything internet-facing draws constant…
SELinux is on by default on AlmaLinux (and RHEL, Rocky, CentOS Stream). It enforces a mandatory access control policy…
Debian stable is famously conservative — the version of any given package in stable is whatever shipped when that…
Ubuntu LTS releases every two years (20.04, 22.04, 24.04, 26.04 ...). When an LTS approaches end-of-standard-support…
Docker (and its rootless cousin Podman) is a popular way to run multiple applications on a single VPS in isolated…
The "which distro?" question gets reopened every few years as the ecosystem shifts. LYLIX offers three Linux distros…
Every troubleshooting article tells you to "check the logs." This article tells you which log, with what flag,…
You don't need Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and a week to get useful monitoring on a single VPS. Netdata installs in…
You ran an OS reload from the customer portal and the result came back: Service: NNNN, Distro: <name>, Error:…
Manually running apt upgrade every week is a discipline most operators lose within three months of provisioning.…
Swap on a VPS lives in a fuzzy zone of folk wisdom: "you don't need swap if you have enough RAM," "swap will thrash…
Every modern Linux distro uses systemd as PID 1; sooner or later you need to run your own service under it (a custom…
Linux gives you two ways to schedule recurring work: the 50-year-old cron, and systemd timers. Both work. They have…
Every application that logs to a file under /var/log/ eventually fills the disk if nothing rotates it. Distro…
Wrong clocks break things in ways that are infuriating to debug: TLS handshakes fail with "certificate not yet…
Every Linux distro updates the kernel periodically — security CVEs, hardware support, performance fixes. The new…
Logging into a fresh VPS as root via password is fine for the first 10 minutes. After that you want named user…
Every Linux distro has settled on one of three network configuration systems, and which one you're dealing with…
Linux out of the box runs fine for most workloads. The "performance tuning" articles you find online often paste 50…
Keeping logs locally is fine until you actually need them — at which point either the disk is full and they've…
The chmod/chown trio (owner-group-other × read-write-execute) is enough for most file permission needs. When it…
If you SSH into more than three machines, your ~/.ssh/config is doing more work than you think. The default behavior…
Every modern Linux distro now ships with nftables as the native firewall backend; iptables is kept around as a…
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