• by Ethan Bennett
• in VPN
• View 1
• Date 12 Jul, 26

Short answer: WireGuard is the best VPN protocol for most people in 2026. It's fast, modern, well-audited, and easy to deploy on almost anything including a cheap Linux VPS. OpenVPN is still the...

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Linux Tutorials
• View 11
• Date 11 Jul, 26

If you’re searching for how to Optimize Linux, the short answer is this: check the bottleneck first with tools like top, htop, free, df, and iostat. Then clean up disk space, reduce unnecessary....

• by Ethan Bennett
• in VPS
• View 25
• Date 09 Jul, 26

Short version: pick a VPS plan, head to checkout, choose BitPay, pay the invoice from your wallet, and wait for the blockchain to confirm. That's it. Your server gets provisioned shortly after the...

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Email
• View 36
• Date 08 Jul, 26

Switching email providers scares people. And honestly? It should do it wrong and your team loses access to their inboxes, clients get bounce-backs, and years of email history vanishes. But here's the....

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Domain
• View 34
• Date 07 Jul, 26

You just ran a domain lookup and got back a wall of text. Registrar this, status code that, a few dates, and — wait — where's the owner's name? If that sounds familiar, you're in the...

• by Ethan Bennett
• in VPN
• View 33
• Date 06 Jul, 26

If you're trying to pick between IKEv2/IPsec and WireGuard, here's the short version: WireGuard is usually faster, simpler, and a joy to deploy on a VPS. IKEv2/IPsec is the safer pick when you need...

• by Ethan Bennett
• in VPS
• View 38
• Date 04 Jul, 26

If you're sitting on some BTC, USDT, or ETH and want to spin up a VPS without touching a credit card, CoinPayments is probably the checkout option you're looking at. It's a crypto payment gateway not....

• by Ethan Bennett
• in MikroTik
• View 53
• Date 02 Jul, 26

Short version: a MikroTik CHR license controls how much traffic your Cloud Hosted Router is allowed to push. The license tier sets a throughput ceiling — nothing more, nothing less. CPU, RAM,...

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Domain
• View 53
• Date 01 Jul, 26

Domain status codes are short labels shown in WHOIS or RDAP that describe a domain's current administrative condition — whether it's active, locked, expired, in redemption, or heading toward...

• by Ethan Bennett
• in VPN Security Server
• View 55
• Date 30 Jun, 26

If you've already spun up OpenVPN or WireGuard from a one-line install script, congrats the tunnel works. But a working tunnel isn't a secure server. I've seen plenty of self-hosted VPNs that encrypt....

• by Ethan Bennett
• in VPS
• View 51
• Date 29 Jun, 26

If you've got crypto sitting in a wallet or exchange and you want to spin up a VPS without pulling out a credit card, paying with Cryptomus on MonoVM is one of the cleanest ways to do it. This guide.....

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Server Tutorials
• View 46
• Date 28 Jun, 26

You bought a dedicated server. The provider sent over the IP, root password, and a control panel link. Now what?Here's the honest answer: most people skip the first hour of work that actually...