sysadmin horror stories
Introduction, or “What Could Possibly Go Wrong” So you have a perfectly good server. Two perfectly good SATA SSDs. A perfectly reasonable desire to mirror them so that when one inevitably dies at 3am on a Sunday, your server keeps running. You’ve done this a hundred times. mdadm, RAID1, /boot on the array, done, beer, … Read more
“Wait, can you even do that?” It started, as the best bad ideas do, with a question I didn’t expect a real answer to. I’d been hearing about MCP — the Model Context Protocol, the thing that lets an AI assistant actually talk to your stuff instead of just hallucinating about it. And I had … Read more
A critical authentication bypass in cPanel & WHM gave attackers root access to over a million publicly exposed servers — silently, without a password, defeating two-factor authentication — for sixty-four days before anyone patched a thing. What Was Actually at Stake cPanel and WHM are not just web applications. They are the administrative nervous system … Read more
Sysadmin Horror Stories — Vol. 1 Ubuntu 24.04 & RAID1 EFI: A Comedy of Errors Platform: AMD AM5 / B650 Disks: 2× Samsung 960GB SATA SSD Mood: Progressively deteriorating A completely true account of what happens when you try to do something perfectly reasonable — installing Ubuntu Server 24.04 on a proper software RAID1 … Read more