2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 223: Google Juice Abuse
Equinix is shutting down its bare metal service, D-Link advises people to dump old vulnerable routers, Google makes changes to how it ranks some affiliate-driven “reviews”, and data caps seem to be sticking around. Plus mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.
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Introducing OpenZFS Fast Dedup
News/discussion
Equinix to shutter bare metal IaaS service in 2026
D-Link says replace vulnerable routers or risk pwnage
Google cracks down on “Parasite SEO,” punishing established publishers
Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you
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Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD
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