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I wrongly phrased it (rather was an incomplete question), I meant storing the recordings on a storage server as well as being able to view it on-demand, just to prevent my home ISP IP/network being exposed.
Chill, it was just a cheap shot I took for, you know, drama, coz, this is, LET after all
I'm far less bothered about the scammy operations or the shady practices which took place earlier, as people are naive to fall into the same trap again and again. Wisdom comes from experience and there will be idiots in the world who will lose their money to such malicious business operations.
Also, if my memory serves me right, I did ask about it or said something similar in a thread as a reply but it got overlooked or I don't remember but it was few months back. I'm not the person who will go on a witch-hunt to catch the person doing the immoral and unethical business practises. I leave that on "karma" as long as it doesn't affect me directly. I was wise enough to Google, search on LET and inquire couple of known people in the industry before trying out CC and the related hosts/resellers when the, you know, "operations" were taking place. Everything is there on the internet if anyone in the future wishes to dig into it. There's a reason why many left this forum and migrated to the "other places" and you exactly know why @raindog308
You're entitled to your belief and I am to mine. You can support whoever you wish to, that's completely fine. As I stated above and I'll say it again, "karma is a bitch".
No hard feelings though as I'm not gonna bring it up again after this.
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I love this place)
Also, I see the man trying to distance himself from the whole fiasco and wishes to start afresh by bringing the community live again. So, gotta give it to that but still, it will never whitewash whatever happened earlier. I might not have the complete insider information but I totally rely on the threads/responses made here in LET in different threads as well as on the "other forums" for my understanding of the unethical business operations done in the past. So excuse me for taking the highway (and don't ban me
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regarding the whole fiasco which most are aware of. I do understand that it is all a personal choice whether to answer them or not but would be a good read on the explanations, not that he owes the community anything, but, drama!
I just saw the thread you posted regarding the AMA and the questions asked there, well, excited to read the answers to them unless they are ignored which will just raise the doubt & suspicion even more
LET is stale without a drama and the last drama was weeks back I guess.
I followed that to setup on a Hetzner SB (auction server) and it worked without any MAC config. Try and let me know if it works.
hello @raindog308 missed u
Believe it or not, I still use AIDE. I know a lot of people think it's useless, but I've just been using it for so long it's force of habit.
something like this (2020 updated) and/or security related guides using cloudflare : https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/33971/script-to-enable-disable-cloudflare-ddos-protection-automatically#latest
Thanks
I actually already wrote one on AIDE :-) It's coming up.
Automating stuff with bash, basically how to write a bash script, best practices, how to deal with variables, errors, multi-system support, etc...
I'm actually teaching a class on bash at work now...
I think a good tutorial would be starting with one domain, one cheapo VPS (Ubuntu, CentOS, etc...) and showing step by step a basic setup to get the domain live with a default WordPress install. Bonus points for installing any control panel.
Thanks to those who've provided some suggestions here. And of course thanks to @raindog308 for putting this content together.
Real HA is sorcery depending on how far you want to take it. Fencing is going to be tricky on low end hosting and it will be very hard to get into a fenced node to analyze the failure before it comes back up too.
I've had good luck with pacemaker and drbd on EL7 though. But it takes a lot of swearing and IPMI to get it set up right. You don't need KVMoIP but SOL sure comes in handy when configuring.
Read the ABSG (Advanced Bash Scripting Guide, by Mendel Cooper. It is like the moment in 'The Matrix' where Neo Learns Kung Fu.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
Read it twice if you need the first time, and then once yearly for the next 5 years to cement it.
A really good '200 level' course I think would be something like Ansible. It's a big topic that could be a specialization, but maybe something simple like installing some packages and changing the SSH port (and configuring SELinux/the firewall to allow it)
I started out writing scripts for these things, but nowadays I find it quicker and more effective to use Ansible. Some pseudo code later you're able to idempotently setup things in a way that can be compatible with many target operating systems. It's also highly reusable with well-written roles
I'd be happy to contribute/advise, I've been doing this stuff for years. Issue is, the day job keeps me pretty busy
May take me a while to come up with something stamp worthy
Ha, I just did a class today on Ansible as well LOL
Two different audiences...bash is for a team that has no real sense of scripting. I argued that they may way to learn python or something like that instead but yadda yadda they wanted bash.
Ansible class was for a different need for people who will spend 90% of their time either using very basic ansible modules (file, command, synchronize, maybe cron) and vendor-supplied ansible modules that interact with the API. Ansible is so easy to use that we spent most of the class talking about the finer points of YAML.
I love ansible...and there's an ansible 101 tutorial already scheduled for LEB.
I did a HA Wordpress (using MySQL bi-directional & DRBD) tut...it's coming up.
Pacemaker and floating IPs that failover etc seems really old school to me. I cut my teeth on Solaris + Veritas Cluster + shared storage but most of what I deploy these days does not use the "fail the IP over" method. In the enterprise it's load balancers...in the LowEnd world it's RRDNS.
I will check it out. I like Chris FA Johnson's book "Shell Scripting Recipes" which I found to be really fun.
TBH, though I know the shell (ksh, bash) inside and out, I vastly prefer to write stuff in perl.
Possibility of Puppet and Bolt?
Bash is nice, 90% of the crap I write is slated for the class "What NOT to do with shell" and it's follow-up "POSIX? What the fuck is that?"
+1 for ansible
I really want a bash tutorial for creating HTML forms
ip failover is for site-local redundancy
dns is for when your failure mode involves a hurricane or bomb or geopolitical action
And you should check into the CLUSTERIP iptables module. It lets all servers in the cluster actively use the same production IP, at the same time, without conflicts, for real. (They each selectively ignore all but 1/n of the internet where n is the number of online nodes). Clever.
How to split a dedicated server into KVM slices using open source products
Unless you are looking at overloading, its fairly simple. Just install ESXi or Proxmox
Puppet has the stench of Ruby.
I think with Puppet you need to go and setup agents, no? I really don't know that product. One thing I like about Ansible is it is 100% agentless which means you can use it even for one-off commands as opposed to formally managing nodes.
I'm really not sure what you mean.
I personally would not have my webserver calling shell scripts...
Iptables with good Nat forwarding tips
Rather than writing yet another tutorial, I would like to see a well-organized index of "best in class" webpage and website tutorials that already exist. Building that index would:
tutorial id like to see is on how to take a port # (ie 192...:8989)and assign it to a web address ie test.com/torrents.
Also known as how to set up a reverse proxy.
Python versions and pip install environment shit might be a bad first impression of Python. Bash is everywhere, and when it isn't, the user walks away blaming dash or something else, not bash.
Unless you started off with "this is the one and only proper fucking way to install and use python", I'd prefer bash, as well.
You might have heard of it, called Google.
I think every distro we use at work includes at least Python 2.7 (and maybe 3 with later ones). But yes, you can end up with a ton of dependencies, depending on what you're doing. Well, at least it's not node. Or for that matter, perl, where half the time your CPAN installs are compiling things.
Did I mention we also use Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX?
I don't work with developers - mostly SAs and DBAs, so our needs are more administrative. But even there, you've got to manage inventory, do a lot of fleet management (we have thousands of database installs), work with APIs, etc. so we're constantly creeping into software-writing territory.
I prefer perl or python just because bash gets clunky when you work with data, though bash 4 is easier. Python is fine but it's always multiple lines to do a simple regex or run an OS process or something...I was spoiled by perl.
Excellent idea.
@raindog308 what do you think is the best way we could go about doing this?