Linux Server Admin with Fexingo: Sysadmin, Bash, and Server Engineering

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Linux Server Admin with Fexingo: Sysadmin, Bash, and Server Engineering

Lucas and Luna sit down at a pair of thin laptops, terminal windows flickering with abstract patterns, to talk Linux server administration as it's actually practiced—bash scripting, systemd quirks, Nginx tuning, SSH hardening, and the daily grind of keeping production services online. Each episode picks a single sysadmin problem: how to diagnose a slow database query without panic, why that cron job keeps failing at 3 AM, or the right way to automate backups with rsync and rclone. Lucas brings the journalistic rigor—he'll cite real-world incidents like the 2021 AWS Kinesis outage that broke monitoring for half the internet, or the time a misplaced chmod command took down a major e-commerce site for an hour. Luna pushes back with hands-on experience: she's the one who asks whether you really need Docker for a three-service stack, or why your fail2ban config is banning your own IP. Together they cut through vendor hype—no Kubernetes if you have five servers, no Ansible if a shell loop will do—and focus on the tools and habits that keep systems boringly stable. The listener is someone who manages servers—maybe a solo IT generalist at a mid-size company, a DevOps engineer tired of conference talk, or a hobbyist running a home lab who wants professional-grade discipline. No whiteboarding abstract architectures; just concrete decisions, error messages, and the trade-offs between uptime and complexity. Can you afford to ignore SELinux? When is it smarter to reboot than to debug a memory leak? And how do you explain a 99.9% uptime SLA to a manager who thinks 'the cloud' fixes everything?

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Episodes

22 episodes

Zero Downtime Deployments With Blue-Green Servers

May 31, 2026 · 13:07
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Why Your Linux Server Needs a Dedicated nullmailer Setup

May 30, 2026 · 9:31
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Why Your Linux Server Needs a Dedicated WireGuard VPN Mesh

May 30, 2026 · 10:15
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The Case for Filesystem Snapshots Before Package Updates

May 29, 2026 · 10:56
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How to Tame Linux Kernel OOM Killer with Systemd

May 29, 2026 · 11:16
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Why Your Linux Server Needs a Dedicated Log Aggregation Pipeline

May 28, 2026 · 10:05
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Why Your Linux Server Needs a Dedicated Time-Series Database

May 28, 2026 · 10:16
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Why Your Linux Server Needs A Dedicated Monitoring Stack

May 27, 2026 · 7:23
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Why Your Linux Server Needs a Dedicated Bastion Host

May 27, 2026 · 10:33
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Why Your Linux Server Needs Immutable Root

May 26, 2026 · 13:55
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Why Your Linux Server Needs a Dedicated Ansible Control Machine

May 26, 2026 · 14:01
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Why Your NTP Setup Is Probably Drifting

May 25, 2026 · 9:11
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How to Debug a Kernel Panic in Production

May 25, 2026 · 8:13
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How Container Orchestration Went Mainstream

May 24, 2026 · 9:03
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Why You Should Monitor Server Disk Latency Now

May 24, 2026 · 10:43
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Automating Server Backups With Borgmatic

May 23, 2026 · 11:29
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The Case for Structured Server Documentation

May 23, 2026 · 12:08
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How to Diagnose a Silent Memory Leak

May 22, 2026 · 10:18
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Why Your SSH Key Setup Is Probably Wrong

May 22, 2026 · 8:32
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Why Your Server Needs A Dedicated Log Partition

May 21, 2026 · 9:25
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How Systemd Tamed Linux Boot Chaos

May 21, 2026 · 13:28
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How a Five-Dollar Typo Broke a Production Server

May 19, 2026 · 12:27
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