Stop HDDs spinning up on ssh login in Ubuntu server

By Frederik in homeserver on 11 Dec 2020

Please see Update at the bottom! (04.01.2023) Ever wondered why your harddrives are spinniung up nearly everytime you login to your homeserver over ssh? fsck is the culprit! Well kind of. Everytime you login to Ubuntu via ssh, you get a nice overview of your system. (example below)…

ApacheBench: benchmarking your website with concurrent requests

By Frederik in selfhosting on 06 Jun 2020

Today I was searching for a tool to test the perfomance of two different webservers I have running. One is a cheap VPS running the OpenLiteSpeed webserver and hosting a wordpress instance. The other is  my "homelab" which is running a docker instance of the Ghost blogging platform.…