Three Ubuntu nodes, one Galera, SST with mariabackup. It is not asynchronous replication: every node accepts writes and the majority decides who stays up. Two nodes are not enough — if one goes down, the other is left alone, without a majority. Below is the three-node cluster from the galera_new_cluster package, on Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04, with backup a … Read more
Debian 12 ships PHP 8.2. Ubuntu 24.04 ships 8.3. Debian 13, 8.4. Ubuntu 26.04, 8.5. A real host needs all three at once: the old WordPress site, the new Laravel application, and the cron CLI. The distribution repository does not allow it. Ondřej Surý’s does. nginx comes from nginx.org — stable, pinned, without mixing … Read more
In 2005, two Germans from projektfarm GmbH, the same crew that maintained HowtoForge, published a panel to manage Linux hosting servers. Twenty-one years later, ISPConfig is still going strong. It continues under a BSD license, with no fee … Read more
