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I do use a template for frontend, since I am terribly bad at it. I am more specialized in backend.
Still, the layout etc.
Same though, I've got no interest in frontend, I've got Chat GPT to build a frontend for my database that actually works quite good with Tailwind CSS
I don't use chatgtp a lot, sometimes it generates unsafe code.
ChatGPT once generated some frontend code where the admin api key was fully exposed.
Damn.
It seems better with GPT 4.
Makes less mistakes for sure.
@BasToTheMax I think you already have enough posts. Two weeks isn't so long, but, maybe, if you post a polite request in the FreeVPS.org thread, maybe the guys might consider your request a few days early?
Is the source code to your panel open and available?
Do you know about FOSSBilling? Awhile back they were working on integrating with Proxmox, but I don't know the status of it.
@Otus9051 What problems did you face? How did you fix them? Thanks!
The trick to making a good backup system is to think about what you might need to easily get out of it in any likely problem situation. As well as thinking about full restores, consider needing to bring back an accidentally deleted file (you don't want to have to transfer and decrypt a huge backup for that) or files that were overwritten/corrupted/deleted days/weeks ago and you didn't notice until now.
If you leave the files as-is you can use many tools to simply sync the filesystem with the backup end. For a consistent backup, first do a sync, then stop all services and sync again, then restart services. With the services stopped you should have a consistent state, doing the first sync will get most bits updated so the second sync needs to make minimal changes so your outage time is short. You might choose to just do a live sync regularly and the cold sync less often (maybe once per week?). This is how I backup my mail server.
For encryption, there are two main choices:
1. Encryption at rest on the backup side - create an encrypted block device and a filesystem on that to store the backups on. Never have the keys on the remote side, this means you can't have it auto-mount the encrypted block device after a reboot (you'll need to SSH in and mount it, providing the keys as you do) but it also means you don't have the huge hole of storing keys next to the lock. There are ways to get keys from another remote site to mitigate this a bit, but for my threat model I'm happy with getting a notification of the thing being unmounted and SSHing in to fix that. If you are running in a VM rather than your own physical machine there are concerns over in-memory security (even more so if running in a container) but unless you suspect your host of meticulously scanning for things to steal or one of your concerns is a nation-state level hack, that is likely not an issue (though for paranoia perhaps consider keeping your bitcoin wallet & keys elsewhere).
2. Use an encrypted shadow filesystem like CryFS / EncFS / goCryptFS / etc. (it looks like EncFS development has stalled, so maybe don't consider that but anything else that implements its reverse option which you'll want for easy restores) and backup the shadow filesystem instead of the source. This way the encryption is done your-side (no keys needed on the server) and you still get easy per-file restores.
3. You could also do both, but this is probably overkill.
Another important step is to test your backups regularly. For my mail and web servers I have copies of them running in local VMs that restore the most recent backup, if anything makes that fail I know I need to look into it… I also do a manual check (login to the copy occasionally to see it is working and that the most recent expected changes are present) which could possibly be further automated. A key advantage of this testing method is that it doubles as a full restore procedure (needed if the source machine dies, or is compromised, completely) so that is being tested each time as well as the backup process. For pure storage backups (work files, documents, media) I keep checksums, updated after each backup, and have a script regularly check them. I also have it run a check against the source sometimes for paranoia's sake.
Another thing to consider is snapshots - you don't want just one backup in case something goes wrong and you don't notice the corruption until it has spread to your only backup. With a huge encrypted tar/zip this takes a lot of space as you need full copies of the entire thing but if syncing with rsync or anything similar this is much more practical. Some tools like borg should pretty much do this for you though I still maintain my own backup scripts first hacked together many years ago.
Probably the biggest problem was setting up BIRD. BIRD docs are rather confusing for me and ChatGPT didn't help either (wrong syntax, weird code, etc.). I then somehow after scavenging through lots of Google Searches and nagging August for telling me, I finally got my first working config. I will be releasing a guide on it soon, I hope.
The second problem was terminology, half of the things sound way foreign if you don't know what they mean or haven't heard them before. For example, IP Transit vs Peering is probably one of the most asked questions by BGP Newbies.
Lambos retain value better. Tesla value will only keep going down.
I haven't decided yet if I will make it open source.
I heard the name once, but I have never used FOSSBilling before. Should I try it?
All my posts are spammy but I don’t want a free VPS.
Honestly I don't know. The developers seem dedicated and hard working. But I haven't looked at the code and I haven't tried it. Wish I could offer more experience. One of these days I will try it.
Did you get everything working?
I have used FOSSBilling, it's quite good at what it does.
Yep
https://bgp.tools/as/199693
In Swedish, Sen means late.
Which I guess summarizes your experience setting that up.
FOSSBilling uses the same admin template as I do. The only difference is that they use the vertical interface.
https://preview.tabler.io/layout-vertical.html
GPT-3 just roasted us, please prove it wrong on https://trustpilot.com/review/freevps.org
well,thanks for this good idea!
Thanks buddy
Earlier in this thread we were talking about backups. I just came across this Hetzner Community Tutorial on Borgmatic. I knew about the existence of Borg, but not Borgmatic. So maybe it's worth a mention here.
Thanks for mentioning tabler! I took a look! Very interesting!
@FatGrizzly Congrats on your excellent marketing initiative! Clearly you are worthy of a promotion to Vice-President! Maybe even President!
i want a free lambo!
I am migrating a Mastodon instance to a new host.
The documentation is actually decent. Yet despite this, I still struggle. Trying to tinker with Linux was honestly one of my covid19 projects.
Here is the procedure:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/migrating/
But the end always messes me up with nginx. Going to give this a shot now, please pray for me. Or if you're able to help, happy to send you cash or buy you a beer.
Hi Jeff!
Well, your Mastodon instance seems to be up right now! Maybe that means you found success!?
If you still need help, please consider starting a new discussion thread about your issue. Maybe the new thread could be called something like "Nginx Issues While Migrating A Mastodon Instance." You could post the migration procedure you were following, where you were coming from and where you are going, the specific trouble you are having, configuration files, error and log messages, and fixes already tried that didn't work.
There are many guys here who know a lot more than I do. Usually, somebody will help you if you share enough information to make it possible to help.
Best wishes and kindest regards!
Tom
Seeing a free service on Trustpilot with less than 5 stars is laughable. Have we reached peak entitlement yet?
"Sorry for...you willingly signing up and using our server's resources free of charge"
When I looked at the Trustpilot page there was one five star review. The Trustpilot page also showed an explanation from Trustpilot about why the number of stars in the reviews might not equal the number of stars in Trustpilot's overall rating. If I remember right. Friendly greetings!
i am currently working on some cloud certifications. besides student credits, stuff like oracle free trial hasn't worked out for me. so using my own purchases here and the free offerings to try pet projects and self manage my own vps.
I saw the donation option to get the free VPS. May I know if it is still valid? I just happen to get introduced to this platform about 3 months ago but did not have an account till now. Is there any drawbacks to the donation option vs the 3 months with 50 non spammy posts? Does my account need to be 3 months also even with the donation? Thank you!