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waverideron Ask HN: How dominant is VMWare (as of Aug 2016)?

VMWare is probably ubiquitous in large enterprises.

Small and medium IT shops probably lean towards an open source based solution like KVM.

waverideron How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server

It's a good idea to use fail2ban even if you use VPN.

waverideron How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server

1. I don't think it's a good idea to use the same account by multiple people.

2. And you're not using a configuration management tool (like SaltStack, which is also a remote execution engine) this will give you: - a central point to manage all your server - predictable configuration on all servers with the same role - a configuration documentation place (and even history if you git the confs) - will make managing multiple users a breeze

3. Use VPN and private services on private IP.

waverideron How To Make a Quick Buck

Yes, that happens to the best of us: proper command, wrong machine :).

Now, shutdown and rm are the worst to add to the mix.

waverideron How To Make a Quick Buck

Another incredibly common cause for odd system behavior is disk being full. I wonder if there's any checklist with common system problems.