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    • vaette
      vaette Crazy last edited by vaette

      In the coming weeks somewhere I will migrate the forums (and some related software/sites) onto a little microserver in my apartment. Only reason it has been professionally hosted up to now is that I have not had that permanent an address, but now that I plan to stick in this apartment indefinitely I will save some money and put the forums on some tiny box.

      This will mean a day or so of outage, and then after that reliability will probably be a touch worse (e.g. power outages are more likely in an apartment than in professionally run a datacenter in Frankfurt). Otoh it will mean way more powerful hardware (even spending almost no money), and as it will have no real running costs on the margin it will be around indefinitely.

      Honestly I feel like Discord has been pretty fully adopted in a very good way, but as you never know what tomorrow will bring it is best keep backups around.

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      • Tango
        Tango Crazy last edited by

        So if the forum is down in the future we know who's at fault.

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          Black Bob Crazy last edited by

          Haha, yep agree with Vaette I think everyone's currently using discord, but its amazing how one little change in the company in the future could stop us all using it.

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          • vaette
            vaette Crazy last edited by vaette

            The new box has arrived:
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            As you can see only the most professional of hardware accepted.

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            • vaette
              vaette Crazy last edited by

              Finally finalizing the migration today, it will not be smooth as changing the DNS records will take some time to propagate, and other issues may pop up.

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                beach Crazy last edited by

                my anti virus told me this wasn't a secure connection apparently 😛

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                • vaette
                  vaette Crazy @beach last edited by vaette

                  @beach said in Migrating to a tiny little box:

                  my anti virus told me this wasn't a secure connection apparently 😛

                  Yep, your ISP DNS server apparently got updated before mine did. Needed to update the certificates on the new host (done with the excellent free Let's Encrypt service, support the EFF people!), but that requires that it can probe the domain to make sure you own it, and I needed DNS to clear out before that.

                  As far as I know things are now working however, and I will start backing up and deleting the virtual machine we have used up to now.

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                    beach Crazy last edited by

                    ah okay fair enough!

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                    • vaette
                      vaette Crazy last edited by

                      The end of an era.
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                      Well, not much of one. End of monthly bills at any rate 😛

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                        Black Bob Crazy last edited by

                        haha 😄

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                        • Tango
                          Tango Crazy last edited by

                          Can you make it possible to edit old posts? It is not possible to edit posts more than 3600 seconds after posting it.

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                          • vaette
                            vaette Crazy last edited by

                            Sure, should be infinite now.

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                              beach Crazy last edited by

                              now we have to find the post that tango edited to insult someone somewhere

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                              • vaette
                                vaette Crazy last edited by

                                Five more years at least: 94542e2d-8f11-466d-8f99-955ff5f69e75-image.png

                                Need to actually configure backup, I didn't get around to it when doing the migration.

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                                • vaette
                                  vaette Crazy last edited by vaette

                                  OK, thanks to James never showing up for DOTA backups are now up and running.

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                                  • vaette
                                    vaette Crazy last edited by vaette

                                    And now migrated to a slightly larger box! In the interest of box consolidation mostly 🙂

                                    In the process I have managed to change the emoji into their android blob variants somehow, not sure why. It is not very surprising however, as just about every fragment of software involved has changed in the process.

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