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Whisper data file retention (Grafana / Graphite)

Posted on January 18, 2024

I have been using stack of Grafana + Graphite + Whisper with collectd daemons on my Linux servers for many many years. After some update […]

Linux

Benchmark i7-7700, Ryzen5 3600, Ryzen7 3700X, i5-13500, Xeon E-2276G, part 1

Posted on December 24, 2023

Greetings, Wizards! Today we are benchmarking 5 servers, that are priced below 50EUR/month. How much power will we get? Which of them has the best […]

Benchmark

My website has been hacked. Who’s fault is it?

Posted on December 7, 2023

As system administrator working for hosting company – this is the question, that many ask “silently” or at least – question that is in the […]

Security, Wordpress

Fixing XFS partition

Posted on November 20, 2023

Often – if not always – XFS partitions gets broken after Veeam backup restore. I usually mount Live-restore from Veeam to VM. Mounting of backup […]

Linux

How many CPU cores do I need for my VPS?

Posted on November 11, 2023

“How can I improve speed of my WordPress site and will adding more CPU cores help?” question I am being frequently asked Quick answer is […]

Benchmark, Linux, Wordpress

Virtual machines with KVM on ARM64 server

Posted on August 27, 2023

Host machine for this test is a 80 core server with Ampere ® Altra ® Q80-30 CPU and 128GB ECC RAM. It runs latest Debian12, […]

Benchmark, Linux

Install PHP5.2, PHP5.6 and PHP7.0 as Apache + FCGI on AlmaLinux8 / Centos8

Posted on August 2, 2023

This might sound very strange in 2023, but here are HOW-TO instructions on how to install Apache with FCGI and various number of old PHP […]

apache, Linux, PHP

Benchmark Ryzen5 3600, Ryzen9 5950, Ryzen7 7700, Ryzen9 7950X3D, Intel i9 13900

Posted on July 10, 2023

Helping customer to choose new server. Doing some benchmarks with sysbench tool and WordPress plugin (wpbenchmark.io). Customer asked me to benchmark servers, that are available […]

Benchmark, Linux, Wordpress