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Host operations — keeping the box alive
Operational fixes that keep the VPS itself healthy: memory pressure, the OOM killer, swap, and making long-lived sessions (tmux) survive a runaway process.
- Why tmux kept dying — OOM resilience
- Why tmux refused the terminal — terminfo & the Ghostty fix
- Why ralli-roadmap returned 502 — supervising a bare node process
- The Long Dark — when the whole box is paused and resumed
- When a container can't read its own secret — Docker secrets & non-root users
- Renewed certs that never get served — the certbot deploy hook
- The healthcheck that DoSed itself — a throttled /healthz