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How do you keep track of your servers?
After an intense BF deals season, I am sure most of you have a new fleet of idle VPS waiting for some use. But, how do you keep track of them?
An old-school Excel spreadsheet would probably suffice but I am sure there's a better approach to keep your server details (passwords, SSH keys, IP addresses, specs, renewal date, uptime, purpose) in one place.
A Keepass database might do the trick too.
What do you use in your case?
Comments
Ansible
Excel.
I dont.. I recently found my annual server again.
You don't
That's why some of them is idling because I might forgot it exists until the next bill came,
That's what I thought
I'd like to keep my sanity tho
If you are from Russia then you don't need to because in Soviet Russia, servers track you.
I use KeePassXC. Premium product.
Excel it is. With renewal date in bold red
I use conditional formatting if cell value less than
=TODAY()+45Postgresql
Mindmap and git project with configs
Notion
Exactly this, and a reminder in my phone calendar for renewing 'important' ones.
custom dash
dash 1 = 784 servers
dash 2 = 549 servers
Im actually trying to think of new way, or redesign my app.
I'm using DomainMOD.
Pretty good so far.
https://demo.domainmod.org/
Should probably grab another VPS to run a database for this.
I limit myself to 10 boxes (both paid and free), named as vps0-vps9. If one is canceled and expired, I'm allowed to order another. Currently I have 7 in use.
Previously, these were entered into DNS as A and AAAA records.
Last month, I deleted them from DNS to reduce clutter in Cloudflare control panel, but I entered the information in ~/.ssh/config, with provider name in the comment.
As for SolusVM username, I rely on browser autofill, and search my inbox if necessary. Password is the same, and you can find that by searching this forum.
Setup steps are in textfiles saved on Nextcloud.