Run systemd-analyze security against two ordinary services on the same host and the scores can land almost six points apart — one near UNSAFE, the other down close to OK — without either service being broken or badly written. On a stock Ubuntu box running systemd 259, cron.service measures 9.6 UNSAFE while …

A systemd bug report opened on January 3, 2026, put a number on something Linux admins had long suspected: systemd-journald writes far more data to disk than the log text it stores. The reporter, running systemd 257.9 on Debian 13 (kernel 6.12.57+deb13-amd64) with the journal on XFS, saw a virtual machine doing about …

Contabo has a devoted following among developers and sysadmins who want the most RAM and storage per dollar available anywhere. A German company with data centers across Europe, the US, and Asia, they take a no-frills approach — huge specs, low prices, basic interface. Here's whether that trade-off is worth it, and …