Server Management
In my Server Management section, I write about server administration strategies, performance optimizations, and backup solutions, sharing insights from managing both production and personal servers.
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When two Hetzner servers died at the same time
On May 12, 2026, two of my Arch Linux + LUKS servers at Hetzner became unreachable at the same moment. Both had been running for 4+ months without issue. Both had received the same pacman -Syyu the day before, but had stayed on the old kernel until the morning the websites stopped responding. I rebooted… Continue reading
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Why should one mount Linux /home/?
Why should one the instead of using a ? Simple answer from my side: The and I assume also other package managers may delete the symbolic link during the update process and create a new home directory instead. If you need to store your home data on another storage then your root partition, consider to… Continue reading
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Software RAID1
is a system to prevent data lost by mirroring two storage devices. In my opinion it should be a part of a server data backup strategy. I have much experiences with setting up software RAID1’s. In the most of the cases I use a which mirrors the devices of an physical cluster. A repositories which… Continue reading