SSH Hangs Forever: A WireGuard MTU Black Hole
Small SSH commands worked, big ones hung forever. The culprit wasn’t the server, the disk, or SSH — it was 28 bytes of MTU.
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Adding and Passing Through Disks on Proxmox
Identify, format, and mount an extra drive on the host, then bind it into an LXC container and on into Docker — plus health checks and spin-down.
Proxmox Notes: LXC Containers, Templates, and First-Boot Setup
Why I run services in LXC instead of VMs, the pct commands worth memorizing, and a repeatable script for standing up a fresh container.
Spinning Down Idle Disks on a Linux Home Server
hdparm spindown_time, udev rules, and the services (smartd, ZFS, media scanners) that quietly keep your drives awake.
Remote Server Fallback Control
A guide to ensuring access to your server even when SSH fails.
Server Commands
A collection of useful server commands for system monitoring and management.