cron logging that actually tells you what failed
A backup script has been running at 3am every night for four months. You know this because you checked /var/log/syslog once, back when you set it up, and saw a line like this:
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Shrinking NixOS Ram footprint and resource requirements to the bare minimum.
A few people were surprised by how low you can go with NixOS, so i thought I would do a write up as I did not realise this was anything special, I kept notes when doing it but not for the intention of writing a blog article so i might miss small tweaks I did here and there.
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The Low-End Playbook
How to actually vet a hosting provider before you pay, red flags, WHOIS digging, payment methods that protect you, and how the forums function as an informal due-diligence network.
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Ask the forum, part 3 - Where the crowd gets it wrong, and what to steal anyway
The same mechanism that catches a scam can bury someone who did not deserve it.
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Ask the forum, part 2 - What happens when someone shouts scam
An accusation is the beginning of the process, not the end of it.
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Ask the forum, part 1: how a forum with no reputation score decides who to trust
No names, no faces, no credit checks. Somehow it still works.
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sed -i and the backup you forgot
Two sites, one VPS, one nginx.conf. You're consolidating:
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sed vs awk vs grep: when to reach for which
Every terminal tutorial teaches these three with the same tired example: cat file | grep foo. That's not a real task, it's a syntax demo.
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Parsing YABS output with awk
You know the thread. Someone's shopping for a cheap VPS, they ask "which is faster, Contabo or RackNerd or the new Hetzner box," and six people paste their full yabs.sh output in reply.
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The Fork - a low end history lesson - part 2
The handoff, the ghost town, and what it means (Image) A public vote, not a handpicked successor: how Anthony Smith stepped back.
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The Fork - a low end history lesson - part 1
First of two parts on the real split between LowEndTalk and LowEndSpirit, a case study in moderation philosophy and community drift, for community managers and anyone curious how this place came to be.
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AdvinServers - New Platform - Ascienth (Alpha) Review
This is the first review of a host on a LowEndSpirit blog in a long time, and it is hopefully the start of a more regular, permanent feature of LES.
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