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HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a powerful, open-source load balancer and reverse proxy. It sits between clients and your backend…
This is a detailed, up-to-date guide to deploying and self-hosting a BlueSky Social PDS (“Personal Data Server”) on DigitalOcean. I…
When you change DNS records—or when propagation is still in progress—your computer or browser may keep showing you old results…
When you plan a DNS change—such as moving your website to a new server—the biggest obstacle is cached records across…
When DNS first became widely used in the 1980s, the system designers aimed for resilience and distributed caching. Over time,…
PostgreSQL 18.0 has arrived with major improvements in performance, SQL features, and security. But as with every major release, upgrading…
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 18.0, the latest major version of the world’s most…
DNS’s original goal was to convert human-friendly names (like dropletdrift.com) into machine addresses (IP). In parallel evolved a “reverse” function—mapping…
In the early days of ARPANET and early Internet, hosts were tracked in a simple flat file (like HOSTS.TXT) listing…