Posts tagged "linode"

When “Auto Install” Breaks: Installing Longview Manually on Debian 12 (Production Safe)

Production has a very specific kind of silence. It’s not the calm silence of a system that’s healthy. It’s the suspicious silence of a system that hasn’t complained yet. Nginx still serves pages. Your API still returns 200. The business dashboard looks green enough to lull everyone into optimism. But you can feel it, response… Continue reading

When Object Storage Lies, Uncovering Hidden Bloat in Linode and DigitalOcean S3 Buckets

If you’re using Linode’s Object Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces, or any S3-compatible service, you might run into a puzzling situation, your dashboard shows gigabytes or terabytes of usage, yet when you inspect your files manually or compress your data with tar.gz, the size seems totally reasonable What gives? Recently, I encountered this phenomenon while managing a… Continue reading