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Beszel vs Dockhand: One Watches the Server, One Runs the Containers

Beszel and Dockhand keep showing up in the same conversation about lightweight self-hosted tools, so people assume they compete. They do not: Beszel is a monitoring hub with historical data and alerts, Dockhand is a Docker management UI. A sysadmin comparison of the two, the measured footprint of each, and how both stack up against the common alternatives: Netdata, Grafana plus Prometheus, Glances, Uptime Kuma, and Dozzle.

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Argo CD vs Flux: The GitOps Comparison After You Actually Operate Them

A hands-on, sysadmin comparison of Argo CD and Flux after operating both: bootstrap flows, Helm models, SOPS and age secret handling, multi-cluster architecture, drift detection defaults, image automation, disaster recovery, UI and API surface, and the repo structures that make each one click. With real commands and the honest limits.