2.5 Admins 223: Google Juice Abuse

Equinix is shutting down its bare metal service, D-Link advises people to dump old vulnerable routers, Google makes changes to how it ranks some affiliate-driven “reviews”, and data caps seem to be sticking around. Plus mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.

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Equinix to shutter bare metal IaaS service in 2026

D-Link says replace vulnerable routers or risk pwnage

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Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you

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