The cheapest VM is currently (May 2026) cloud.co.za. A 2 vCPU VM with 4GB ram will cost you just R130 a month. Check previous post from 2022 on the Cheapest VPS in South africa to compare.
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Was able to try out Rackzar’s AMD Ryzen VPS recently. This post is about the experience and performance. The UI to Create The user interface is easy to navigate and there is lots one can do. It looks very similar to hostking’s. Wondering if this is a standard frontend that can be deployed by infrastructure […]
Ever opened a shell or sshed into a container and it does not have the ping binary: bash: ping: command not found Install Ping Use the package manager of the base image apt update apt install iputils-ping Then test: > ping 1.1.1.1. PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1): icmp_seq=1 […]
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Elastalert 2: Quick Setup
Ever get notified about issues, bugs and problems by people – but also have the data in elasticsearch. There is a tool called elastalert that can alert on data in your elasticsearch cluster. Warning Elastalert 2 only supports recent things… Elasticsearch 6 is not supported, only: Elasticsearch 7.x or 8.x, or OpenSearch 1.x or 2.x […]
Gitlab does not have mkdocs in their prexisting ci/cd templates. .gitlab-ci.yml On your repo create a .gitlab-ci.yml file with the following contents: image: python:3.8-buster before_script: – pip install –upgrade pip && pip install -r requirements.txt pages: stage: deploy script: – mkdocs build – mv site public artifacts: paths: – public only: – master All Gitlab […]