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.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 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   Free consulting We were asked about mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.   nomad-pot-driver Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD                 ServerMania Find this year’s Black Friday & Cyber Week deals at servermania.com/blackfriday   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/25a             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.