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Blunix GmbH is the company blog at blunix.com, writing about systems and security. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “How to Install OpenBSD on ARM Based Hetzner Cloud Servers”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2024–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for a post about replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server. The one comment gives OOM-handling advice (earlyoom, or BSD on Hetzner) and does not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Linux Support, Project based Linux Consulting, Managed Hosting with FOSS Configuration Management as well as Linux Workshops and Trainings

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to Install OpenBSD on ARM Based Hetzner Cloud Servers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. "You may want to enable earlyoom, so your whole server doesn't go down when a service goes bananas." Another option is to run BSD to avoid the Linux oom issue For example, I'm not using Hetzner but I run NetBSD entirely from memory (no disk, no swap) and it never "went down" when out of memory Looks like some people install FreeBSD and OpenBSD on Hetzner https://gist.github.com/c0m4r/142a0480de4258d5da94ce3a2380e8..…

    Comment linking /blog/how-to-install-openbsd-on-hetzner-cloud-servers.html

    on “Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server”
  2. Submitted How to Install OpenBSD on ARM Based Hetzner Cloud Servers as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
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  4. Submitted SMTP Email Relay for Debian Linux Servers with OpenSMTPD as a story · 3 points

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  5. Submitted Is it safe to use encryption with plausible deniability? as a story · 1 points

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  6. Submitted Centralized Log Server on Debian and Ubuntu Linux with Systemd-Journal-Remote as a story · 1 points

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