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Understand how DNS works from the ground up. This guide explains domain resolution, record types, caching, troubleshooting with dig and nslookup, and DNS security basics....
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Discover Bas van den Berg, Dargslan author of 15 books covering Linux administration, Python programming, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices. Learn about his writing approach and expertise....
Master Linux file permissions and ownership with this comprehensive guide covering chmod, chown, special permissions, ACLs, and security best practices....
Build a practical incident response plan for your small IT team. This guide covers preparation, detection, containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned with templates and checklists....
A detailed comparison of Ubuntu Server and Debian for production workloads. Compare release cycles, package management, security updates, enterprise support, and use cases to make the right choice....
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Welcome to the Dargslan Tech Blog — long-form, hands-on articles for engineers who run real systems in production. We publish every week on Linux administration, DevOps tooling, cloud architecture, cybersecurity, Python automation, Windows Server, and the practical day-to-day skills that separate junior sysadmins from senior platform engineers. Every post is written by working professionals, includes copy-pasteable code and configuration files, and is updated whenever upstream tools release breaking changes.
There is no shortage of tech blogs on the internet, but most fall into one of two traps: shallow listicles written by people who have never touched the tools, or 30-page corporate whitepapers designed to sell a product. Our articles sit in the middle — long enough to actually solve your problem, short enough to read with a coffee, and always grounded in working examples you can run in your own terminal. We don't write filler, we don't gate content behind email forms, and we never publish AI-generated slop without expert review.
Our writers come from a sysadmin, SRE, and DevOps background and have shipped production systems for fintech, healthcare, telco, and SaaS companies across Europe and North America. When you read a tutorial here, you're reading what someone actually did at 2am during an incident — not a sanitized vendor case study.
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