What this really is A cryptocurrency node is not a magic box. It’s a bundle of very concrete workloads: network gossip, signature verification, transaction/VM execution, state storage and indexing, (de)serialization and compression, sometimes block building and proof generation. Each of these stresses the CPU and the GPU differently. In 2025, infrastructure for Web3 and L2 […]
Uptime isn’t magic – it’s discipline. Two things create it: observability (you can see what’s happening) and alerts (you learn about trouble before your users do). Basic monitoring is the minimal set of checks and metrics that watch your site and infrastructure 24/7 and notify the right people when something goes wrong. This guide gives […]
DDoS is no longer a “big company” problem. A small ecommerce site, a local media portal, a landing page during a promo-anyone can be knocked offline by a wave of junk traffic. The good news: around 80% of the risk can be mitigated with simple, inexpensive actions-smart DNS, perimeter filtering, caching, rate‑limits, and a bit […]
Disks fail. They slow down, throw errors, or simply can’t keep up with growing load. RAID is a practical way to combine several physical drives into a single logical array to achieve the balance of speed, capacity, and fault‑tolerance your application needs. But the internet is full of lore: “RAID is a backup,” “RAID 5 […]