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October 20261 post

5 October 2026The first ten minutes of a customer outageThe first step in fixing an outage isn't fixing it — it's working out which step you skipped. Because once you reboot, you've wiped out the cause too.Read

September 20263 posts

27 September 2026Two operating systems, one job: the real differences between Windows Server and LinuxWhich one is better is the wrong question. The difference is this: in which one does the error message tell you what to do, and in which one are you left to figure it out yourself?Read
17 September 2026Ten questions the Ubuntu Server installer asksThe installer shows ten screens and it feels like you can click through them all. None of them is trivial — get one wrong and the server is installed, but useless.Read
8 September 2026First day in the server room: meeting a physical serverThe first time I walked into the server room, I saw how different the gap between physical and virtual is from what the theory says.Read