Normal authors: release book to the public early in the week, with much fanfare.

Me, late Friday afternoon, from a dark alley: "psst! Hey, you! Yeah, you! #sysadmin! Buddy! You ever wanted to Run Your Own Mail Server?" #ryoms

https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ryoms-ebook/

(boosts appreciated! )

apt upgrade cups

#sysAdmin

My former employer, @OCCRP, just went live with their new website, and it's pretty slick!
https://www.occrp.org/en

This is bitter-sweet for me.

On one hand, glad to see them have a new site, finally! The old was a mess.

OTOH: I had designed and built the infra that hosted their site through Panama Papers (arguably OCCRP's big break). It did not rely on external CDNs or "DDoS-protection" providers.

That infra is no longer in use as of today. Replaced by Google. 🥲

🧵👇

#DevOps #SysAdmin #WebDev

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

^OCCRP

Since I moved server, I left behind my #Devuan install to restart from a #Debian 11 offered by my hosting provider which I immediately upgraded to Debian 12. This means I am back to #systemd land, and I'm already annoyed with it.

See, service mariadb [action] calls mariadb-admin that requires password-less root access (??) to localhost to do anything, which I don't allow for obvious security reasons.

On the other hand, systemctl [action] mariadb.service doesn't rely on mariadb-admin, but there's no graceful reload available either. 🤷‍♂️

I already miss /etc/init.d/mysqld [action].

#SysAdmining #SysAdmin

It looks like I'm going to have to move server, and the offer I got isn't available anymore at my current hosting provider, which means I'm going to have to pay more or get less.

I currently have: for 20 euros/month:

• CPU: Intel® C2750 (Avoton)
• Memory: 8 GB
• Disk: 1 TB
• Price: 20€/month

The currently available offers that are close to this are:
Start-1-L

• CPU: Intel® Xeon E3 1220v2
• Memory: 16 GB
• Disk: 2 x 1 TB
• Price: 21€/month

or
Pro-4-S

• CPU: Intel® Xeon E3 1245v5
• Memory: 32 GB
• Disk: 3 x 250 GB SSD
• Price: 23€/month

My main question is: is the C2750 so much better thanks to its 8 threads than the Xeon E3? I only use my server as a web server, so isn't the thread count more important?

Would the unavailability of the C2750 be a good enough reason to move provider?

#SysAdmining #SysAdmin #Help #Hosting

This morning my websites weren't loading because the Let's Encrypt certificates expired despite the auto-renewal I set up. It turns out I recently moved my domains from Gandi to Porkbun and certbot wasn't able to renew the certificate using the now incorrect DNS authentication plugin.

After finding a Porkbun-specific DNS plugin, I was able to update my certificate configuration and renew them.

Onwards!

#LetsEncrypt #certbot #SysAdmin

GitHub - infinityofspace/certbot_dns_porkbun: Plugin for certbot to obtain certificates using a DNS TXT record for Porkbun domains

Plugin for certbot to obtain certificates using a DNS TXT record for Porkbun domains - GitHub - infinityofspace/certbot_dns_porkbun: Plugin for certbot to obtain certificates using a DNS TXT record...

^GitHub

# ls -al friendica/log
total 641075504
drwxr-xr-x  2 friendica friendica         4096 Jan 26 04:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 friendica friendica         4096 Feb 20 13:47 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 friendica friendica       307536 Mar  8 14:35 db_log.sql
-rw-r--r--  1 friendica friendica    939041091 Feb 19 08:17 debug.log
-rw-r--r--  1 friendica friendica 521392713728 Mar  8 13:17 error.log
-rw-r--r--  1 friendica friendica 134123690097 Mar  8 15:01 friendica.log
-rw-r--r--  1 friendica friendica            1 Mar 25  2019 php.out
-rw-r--r--  1 friendica friendica      3489792 Mar  7 20:33 slow_queries.log
-rw-r--r--  1 friendica friendica            1 Sep 17  2020 slow_queries_sorted.log

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