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 83: Solid State Bathtubs
SSD reliability, a huge potential amplification DDoS attack, and learning how a mail server works.
Plugs
Webinar: Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS
News
Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs
New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could go wrong?
Free Consulting
We were asked how to learn the inner workings of a mail server.
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