Linux & Infrastructure



SSL certificates in 2026: Why pay if you have Let's Encrypt?

Greetings, friends!If you administer websites, you have surely noticed how much the internet security landscape has changed. About ten years ago, a commercial SSL certificate was purchased for 3–5 y...

Server monitoring: How do you know that everything has fallen before your customers?

Greetings, friends!Imagine this scenario — you wake up at three in the morning to a call from an irate client or a message from management: "The website is down, we are losing orders!". You frantica...

Game server on VPS: How to set up and destroy lags? The full guide in 2026

Greetings, friends!Anyone who has ever tried to host a game server for Counter-Strike 2, GTA 5 (FiveM), Minecraft, or Rust has faced the three horsemen of the apocalypse: high ping, packet loss, and s...

Windows vs Linux on the server: What should I choose for your project?

Greetings, friends!As a person working in the hosting provider industry and representing the MivoCloud infrastructure, I often see how the question of which OS to choose for a server becomes a stumbli...

Why Do People Choose Docker? What Is Portainer and How to Install It on Ubuntu 24.04

Greetings, friends!Are you familiar with that feeling when you try to install some program on a server, and it requires "dependencies" of a specific version? You update one library, and another servic...