Episodes

  • 2.5 Admins 271: Dead Internet

    2.5 Admins 271: Dead Internet
    Oct 30 2025
    Why you should keep your Baseboard Management Controller off the network, ZFS is hard to defeat with a zip bomb, how bad the Internet bot problem probably is, and building a small home server cluster. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Discussion Supermicro server […]
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    28 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 270: Storage Shortage

    2.5 Admins 270: Storage Shortage
    Oct 23 2025
    It looks like the storage companies aren’t betting on the AI bubble lasting much longer, the arguments against self-hosting, and setting up a server for virtualization and containers. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Performance Tuning in the Real World: ARC, L2ARC, and SLOG […]
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    28 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 269: End of 10?

    2.5 Admins 269: End of 10?
    Oct 16 2025
    Windows 10 is officially end of life but Microsoft extends free updates for Windows 10 in Europe, it gets even harder to use a local account in Windows 11, and whether repurposing old server hardware is worth it. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes What […]
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    25 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 268: The Salter Philosophy

    2.5 Admins 268: The Salter Philosophy
    Oct 9 2025
    A Red Hat breach leads to a leak of lots of sensitive customer data, Synology backs down on allowing third-party drives but they are removing features, and managing ZFS properties during replication. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Optimizing ZFS for High-Throughput Storage Workloads […]
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    23 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 267: Hoarding Cache

    2.5 Admins 267: Hoarding Cache
    Oct 2 2025
    The weird errors you see when your root partition is full, TikTok uses a lot of bandwidth by preloading videos, and dealing with a ZFS pool that won’t import. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation […]
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    26 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 266: Jiggawatts of Hallucinations

    2.5 Admins 266: Jiggawatts of Hallucinations
    Sep 25 2025
    Intel and Nvidia are teaming up for multiple reasons, Open AI are planning to build data centers and use a ludicrous amount of power, LLM hallucinations aren’t going away, and how long we keep servers and hard drives in production. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes […]
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    31 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 265: Storage Lies

    2.5 Admins 265: Storage Lies
    Sep 18 2025
    Joe set up a FreeBSD box to serve as a replication target and it was surprisingly straightforward, if rather different from Linux. Plus the lies that storage tells us. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for […]
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    28 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 264: A Question of Trust

    2.5 Admins 264: A Question of Trust
    Sep 11 2025
    Matrix shows how painful enormous databases can be to restore, why the certificate authority system doesn’t seem to make sense in 2025, a hosting provider thinks they are better than Cloudflare at blocking malicious traffic, a viral app turns out to be written by an enthusiastic dev who doesn’t understand best practices, and using S3 […]
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    30 mins