Running small infrastructure without surprises
Field notes on hosting a handful of servers: monitoring that actually pages, backups you have restored at least once, and networking that survives a provider maintenance window.
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Uptime checks, latency budgets and the three alerts that are worth waking up for.
Backups
Nightly snapshots, off-site copies and a quarterly restore drill with a written checklist.
Networking
Firewall defaults, TLS everywhere, and how to keep a status page reachable when the rest is not.
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