About

This site is written by Muzza, a Linux systems engineer working for a web hosting provider — which means shared hosting, VPS and dedicated servers, and the long list of things that go wrong on them at inconvenient times.

What you’ll find here

Practical Linux system administration and hosting operations. The focus is on the work: commands that solve a real problem, diagnostics that find the actual cause instead of the symptom, and the small details that experienced admins know but rarely write down.

Posts are written from a production perspective, not a lab one. Where there’s a trap — a command that lies to you, a default that bites you six months later — it gets called out.

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