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A first week on Debian 13 for a tiny VPS
Notes from rebuilding a small server on trixie: what changed since bookworm, which defaults I kept, and the two packages I install before anything else.
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Running the same site on two nginx server blocks
Serving one document root from both plain HTTP and a loopback-only TLS listener turned out to be a three-line answer — plus one pitfall with ssl_protocols.
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Logrotate defaults that make sense on a 20 GB disk
The stock rotation policy is fine until it isn't. A short checklist for keeping journals and access logs from quietly eating a small root filesystem.
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Why I still self-host the boring parts
Static sites, RSS, and one SQLite file. A short argument for owning the unglamorous 90% of a personal stack and renting the rest.