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How to Set Up Health Checks and Auto-Restart for Services
Services crash. With systemd restart policies, watchdogs and simple health checks, yours come back automatically instead of staying down until you notice.
How to Check and Free Up Disk Space on Linux
A full disk breaks databases, deploys and logins. Learn to find what's eating your space with df and du, and safely reclaim it — logs, caches and old kernels.
Essential Linux Commands Every VPS Owner Should Know
New to the command line? This is the practical toolkit — navigation, files, permissions, processes, services, networking and disk — that runs a VPS day to day.
How to Tune Linux Performance for a Busy Server
When traffic climbs, defaults hold you back. Tune file limits, network buffers, sysctl parameters and services to squeeze more out of your VPS.
How to Scan a Linux Server for Malware (rkhunter, ClamAV)
Even hardened servers get probed. Learn to scan for rootkits and malware with rkhunter and ClamAV, read the results, and respond to a real detection.
How to Read and Manage Linux Logs with journalctl
systemd's journal holds nearly every log on a modern Linux server. Learn to filter, follow, and prune it with journalctl so you can debug fast.
How to Monitor a Linux VPS (htop, netdata and more)
You can't fix what you can't see. Learn the essential Linux monitoring tools — from quick htop checks to a full netdata dashboard with alerts.
How to Create a Swap File on a Linux VPS
Small VPS plans run out of RAM fast. A swap file gives the kernel breathing room and prevents the OOM killer from killing your app. Here's how to add one.
DDoS Protection Basics for a VPS
What a DDoS attack actually is, what you can mitigate at the server level, and where you genuinely need upstream protection. A realistic primer.
How to Protect a VPS from Brute-Force Attacks
Bots relentlessly guess logins against every public server. Here's a layered playbook — keys, firewall, rate limits and bans — to make brute-forcing pointless.
Palworld Dedicated Server Requirements (RAM & CPU)
Palworld is unusually memory-hungry. Here's the RAM and CPU you actually need by player count, why the number keeps climbing, and how to plan for it.
How to Host Multiple Game Servers on One VPS
Run several game servers on a single VPS without them clashing: separate users, unique ports, systemd services, resource limits, and a clean firewall.
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