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Windows and Linux WSL2

Recovering Hard Drive Space from Ubuntu in Windows WSL2

I use Docker Desktop on Windows to run local AI, such as Ollama, Open-WebUI, Portainer, and even SwarmUi and Comfy-UI. Because of that, I’m regularly growing and shrinking the number of AI models on my drive and that’s a lot of GB of storage! Recently I noticed less than 15% storage remaining on my SSD and thanks to SequoiaView, I realized it was because Ubuntu was getting huge! So here’s how I solved the problem.

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Dreamhost VPS Root Access and System Monitoring

SUDO has long since been removed from Dreamhost making this invalid

If you are a Dreamhost customer, you may have popular enough websites that you switched from their stellar shared hosting to a Virtual Private Server (VPS). They offer both your main Apache/PHP server as well as a MySQL VPS. I switched to these shortly after it became available, to ensure maximum control over restarting my servers, troubleshooting problems, and scalable resources. The latter option is a real perk: You can change the memory/CPU allocation for your VPS as activity grows on your websites. On the down side, once those resources are used up, specifically memory, your server will determine that memory was exceeded and all processes will be killed.
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