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From the Blog

Tutorials, deep dives, and hard-won knowledge from the command line.

DNS & Networking
Anatomy of a Zone File
Start of Authority (SOA) The first record in any zone file is the SOA resource record. This is the most...
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DNS & Networking
Anatomy of a Domain name
Start of Authority (SOA) The first record in any zone file is the SOA resource record. This is the most...
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// toolkit

Tools & Technologies

The stack I work with daily and the tools I swear by.

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Linux / RHEL / AlmaLinux
Server administration, kernel tuning, system hardening, and daily driver.
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cPanel / WHM
Hosting panel management, AutoSSL, PHP-FPM, account provisioning, and API automation.
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Security
CSF, iptables, firewalld, ModSecurity, SSL hardening, and intrusion detection.
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Cloudflare
DNS management, Workers, WAF rules, caching strategies, and API automation.
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MySQL / MariaDB
Query optimization, replication, backup strategies, and performance tuning.
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Apache / Nginx
Virtual hosts, reverse proxies, load balancing, and performance optimization.
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Bash / Python / Rust
Automation scripts, monitoring tools, CLI utilities, and the occasional side project.
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Git / CI/CD
Version control, deployment pipelines, and keeping everything reproducible.
// discoveries

GitHub Finds

Interesting repos, underrated tools, and projects worth knowing about.

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I'm a Linux systems administrator who believes the best support means never saying "that's not possible" before trying. After years of managing servers, writing documentation, and solving problems that weren't supposed to be solvable, I built this site to share what I've learned with anyone willing to get their hands dirty.

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