Updo: quick (and useful) guide to monitoring websites from the terminal
What is Updo? Updo is a CLI tool (licensed under MIT) for monitoring uptime and performance of websites and HTTP/HTTPS APIs. It can check multiple targets at once, send requests
Category: Linux
Joe, the Linux Text Editor That Never Goes Out of Style
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Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has announced official support for the new NVIDIA Jetson Thor family, strengthening its strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate innovation in generative AI, humanoid robotics,
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In a sector where every millisecond of latency and every megabyte per second counts, a recent Ceph performance analysis — based on extensive testing with the IO500 benchmark — has
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Oracle has officially released VirtualBox 7.2, the latest stable version of its free, open-source, cross-platform virtualization software for GNU/Linux, Solaris, macOS, and Windows. This new update delivers significant improvements for
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The open-source virtualization platform Proxmox continues to strengthen its position in corporate environments thanks to its stability and flexibility. This is confirmed by the experience of Philipp Schütze, System Administrator
Managing Proxmox VE with GitLab Runner and Terraform: Bringing GitOps to Open Source Virtualization
In modern virtualization environments, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has evolved from a best practice into an operational necessity. Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE), one of the most widely adopted open source
Ceph Breaks Records: AMD EPYC Deployment Delivers Sustained 1 TiB/s Throughput, Setting a New Benchmark for Distributed Storage
A high-performance Ceph cluster has achieved a sustained 1 TiB/s sequential read throughput — the highest publicly reported to date — demonstrating that open-source distributed storage can match or surpass
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