About MyUnix.org
MyUnix.org publishes guides, comparisons and reference material for people who administer Unix and Linux systems. It is a small, independently run site.
How we write
Our articles are written from a review of publicly available information. That means vendor documentation, official pricing and specification pages, project release notes, manual pages, changelogs, source repositories, and published standards.
We do not run a hardware test lab, and we do not publish our own benchmark measurements. If you read a specific latency, throughput or IOPS figure anywhere on this site, it did not come from a machine we operate.
We say this plainly because the alternative is worse. Review sites routinely imply first-hand testing they never performed, and a reader has no way to tell the difference. We would rather be useful and checkable than sound authoritative.
What that means for you
- Commands, flags and configuration are taken from the official documentation for the version named in the article. Where a command differs between distributions or releases, we say so.
- Prices, plan specifications and included allowances come from the provider's own published pages. Providers change these without notice — always confirm on the vendor's site before you buy.
- Performance comparisons are qualitative, and describe design differences and documented characteristics rather than numbers we cannot stand behind.
- Recommendations are editorial judgement based on the above. Reasonable people will disagree with some of them.
Corrections
Technical writing goes stale. A flag is deprecated, a default changes, a provider retires a plan, and an article that was correct in June is wrong by September. We would rather hear about it than not.
If something here is wrong, out of date, or unclear, write to hello@myunix.org with the URL and what you believe is incorrect. Corrections to factual errors are made to the article itself, and the update date on the page changes with them.
Affiliate links and money
Some articles link to hosting providers and other services. Where a link is
an affiliate link, it is marked rel="sponsored" in the page
source and the site footer carries a disclosure.
An affiliate relationship never buys a placement, a ranking or a favourable sentence. Where we would recommend the same product without a commission, we say what we would say anyway; where we would not recommend it, we do not link to it at all.
Who writes this
Articles are drafted with the assistance of language models and reviewed before publication. The site is edited by the MyUnix team, which is answerable for everything published here, whatever tool produced the first draft.