Summer is almost over and so is the price. Until September 1 our HP ProLiant blade servers are up to 60% off: 192 GB RAM minimum, dual Xeon, perfect for virtualization, from 100 EUR / month in Bucharest.
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Starting today you can pay your DreamServer invoices with RoPay: instant bank-to-bank payments by QR code, straight from your banking app, no card needed, with a low 0.5% fee. Here is how it works.
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A hands-on look at Warpgate, the self-hosted PAM bastion written in Rust: a transparent proxy for SSH, HTTPS, MySQL, Postgres and Kubernetes, 2FA and SSO out of the box, session recording, install on a VPS in minutes, and the limits to know before production.
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Domain Monitor is a self-hosted PHP tool that tracks domain expiry, WHOIS data, and sends notifications over 7 channels, so you find out before the domain drops, not after.
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Cronmaster puts a modern web UI, live logging, and SSO on top of cron jobs, so you stop editing crontab with vi over SSH at 2am.
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ArchiveBox saves every URL as HTML, PDF, screenshot, WARC and more, all at once. We run it in our Bucharest datacenter to stop link rot before it costs us a source.
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WatchYourLAN scans your network via ARP and tracks every host it finds. We run it ourselves in our Bucharest datacenter, and here's how to install it.
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OpenMediaVault is a Debian-based NAS solution with SMB/NFS/FTP, software RAID and a plugin system. What it offers and why it wants dedicated disks, not a VPS.
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How Pterodactyl's Panel + Wings architecture gives game communities and hosting providers self-service control over Docker-isolated game servers.
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A hands-on look at Databasement, the open-source database backup manager: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB and more in one web interface, with scheduling, retention, cross-server restore and S3 or SFTP storage. One container, self-hosted.
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Nextcloud turns a VPS into a full file-sync and collaboration suite you control. What it is, how to install it with AIO, and when it's not the right tool.
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A practical look at Graylog: architecture, streams, pipeline rules, alerting, a real docker-compose setup, and when it's the wrong tool for the job.
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A hands-on look at Akvorado, the open-source flow collector from Free: it receives NetFlow/IPFIX and sFlow, enriches with SNMP and GeoIP, stores in ClickHouse and draws Sankey diagrams. Peering, capacity and DDoS analysis, self-hosted.
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A practical look at authentik, the open-source identity provider with SAML, OIDC, LDAP, SCIM and RADIUS support, configurable flows, and forward-auth for any self-hosted app.
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A hands-on look at mkcert, the tool that generates locally-trusted development certificates: how it installs a local CA into the trust store, how you issue a cert for any domain and IP, plus mkcert Web UI for teams. No self-signed, no browser warnings.
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A hands-on look at Grafana, the open-source visualization layer for monitoring: how it pairs with a metrics backend like VictoriaMetrics or Prometheus, dashboards-as-code, alerting, install on a VPS in minutes, and the limits to know before production.
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Wazuh combines XDR and SIEM in one open-source platform: agents, FIM, intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning and compliance. When it's worth running.
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CrowdSec brings collaborative, behavior-based intrusion prevention to your servers: what it does, how to install it, and where it honestly falls short.
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How we use NetBox as our real CMDB and IPAM for our Bucharest datacenter, queried live by our own Ansible automation. Plus a VPS install guide.
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How we run Gatus, an open source health dashboard, to watch dozens of services across our fleet, all defined in YAML and version-controlled in Git.
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A practical look at CloudPanel, the free open-source server control panel from MGT-COMMERCE: what is in the box, how it installs on a Debian or Ubuntu VPS, and where it stops short.
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A hands-on look at SafeLine, the self-hosted WAF from Chaitin Tech: semantic detection engine, install on a VPS in five minutes, real configuration examples and the limits to know before you put it in front of production.
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What Uptime Kuma is, what it monitors out of the box, what a public status page looks like, and how to install it on a VPS in a few minutes.
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SmokePing measures and visualizes latency over time, with its signature smoke graph showing jitter and packet loss where a plain up/down check sees nothing.
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What Zabbix is, how it scales from 10 to 10,000 hosts through distributed proxies, what you get out of the box, and how to install it on a VPS.
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What Checkmk is, why its auto-discovery beats hand-written Nagios configs, what you get out of the box, and how to install it on a VPS. We run it ourselves.
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ZeroTier emulates a Layer 2 Ethernet switch over the internet, with broadcast and multicast, where WireGuard's strict Layer 3 model falls short.
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NetBird is a peer-to-peer mesh VPN built on WireGuard, with both the management and signal server fully self-hostable. What it offers and how to run it on a VPS.
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Tailscale takes the WireGuard engine and adds automatic key coordination, NAT traversal, and SSO. How it works, what's free, and where it stays a proprietary SaaS.
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WireGuard brings modern cryptography and a few thousand lines of code straight into the Linux kernel. Why it's different from OpenVPN/IPsec, and how we run it.
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