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OPEN THIS THREAD --> NEW YEAR w/ NEW DEALS by RackNerd + GIVEAWAYS
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Thanks for sharing this. I really like how they made a big deal out of the 'cold air socks' even though that was the technology when I used to work in a building made in the 80s.
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So what do people use to manage apps on the server? Cloudron? Yunohost? Portainer? Caprover?
pm2, because i host on bare metal (i know, i know...)... sometimes nginx for websites, rarely docker
Completely bare metal, nothing actually. Rarely docker. I try to do one VM one job. For example, Nginx in one VM, postgres in another VM. But happens when I have to host multiple apps in on VM but I don't use any specific app to manage them.
Beside that I hope one day RN provide private network. That would be awesome for my use cases.
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Old obsolete guy here so over the years I've custom designed all my server & service monitors, statistics, management panels, backups systems, and automated installs in perl, python, or bash. Not the prettiest, but they work real well. Most are on bare metal, although I use some nested openVZ and LXC, no docker.
As an example here is my gDNSd overview monitoring page for my geo-located DNS (6+6) and web servers (9). Clicking the up/down takes you to more detail of the monitoring servers statistics of that service over time.
i need help
do you know of a free geoDNS service?
how did you make it yourself?
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Caprover on my VMs, it doesn't mess up existing setups and can be removed after configuration without removing the containers, leaving it all working. Portainer is handy on my home server.
Tried Yunohost for a while, its okay but its very limiting. Caprover works with my existing setup. I like to use Cockpit to manage servers, and when running Ubuntu 18 and Docker it still has the capability to manage/monitor Docker containers unlike the new versions that have switched to Podman.
Very cool tool and panel! uptime is little low for DNS server. seems you update the systems frequently
I use Tailscale and/or Zerotier to make my own private network with my VMs and dedicated servers. I recommend both, Tailscale is really easy to setup but involves a bit more work if you'd rather self host the control interface.
Thanks for recommendation. I never tried them but I will
@DeadlyChemist - I do not know of a cheap/free geoDNS service. @Foul turned me on to gDNSd about five years ago, and I've been using that ever since. I have it setup to geocast my DNS as well as my web servers which actually works really well after the 1st lookup. I consider it my poor man's anycast. I'm not sure this is the thread to discuss this though.
just for curiosity
what's your longest uptime in RackNerd Server ?
best one I got is in Ashburn :
05:45:06 up 388 days, 23:49, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.41, 0.32NY and LA follows up
p.s. : this is not uptime of RN locations. just my server. RN locations have a very good uptime
I need to reboot when I update kernels which resets the uptime of the individual servers, I have no kernel care
Although it does not really matter because they are just an a & b dns with failover. HendixTools screenshot below to show what I mean.
meanwhile im making custom "server" hardware basically WOL sucks
better wires and a custom pcb is better but oh well... $$$
try to figure out what it does lmao
I had to make myself stop caring so much about those uptime numbers because sometimes a server just needs a reboot. I used to try to keep uptime as high as I could.
No need to deny it of such things like kernel updates just to pump up those numbers lol
As long as the downtime is planned it is not a problem.
Your absolutely correct. The great advantage of LowEnd VPSes is that you can have many for little money. This allows you to build redundant systems with great resilience. I really don't care if a server or two go down. All services will still stay up, with only a 1 minute blip in the affected area. I'll never lose millions because a server is down, or it takes three weeks to get an answer to a ticket, or someone deadpools.
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Yesss! I like many services spread across many datacenters with many providers, redundancy is key! Low end is the way to go for this and I definitely agree.
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Looks like a ESP32 to me. Probably you're building a wake on lan packet generator for your server with a ESP32.
close but wrong, i'll hint the big blue component with a diode
That's amazing! Maybe share them on GitHub somewhere?
I've just waiting on the other half to finish a new UI framework before I do that. The top half of that panel where you manage the domains, zone info, servers, and such is kind of ugly right now. The plan is to have a layout of the process, a demo management & states panel, and some preconfigured gDNSd install scripts for various O/S up so I can just point people at it, soon.
EDIT: Soon as in before CC gets IPv6
Looking forward to it!
It's very helpful to me, thank you!
That's cool. I tried use coredns as geodns server for couple of days but not very successful. I have to write my own plugin but not very performant. So used commercial one. I would be grateful if you share details how you implemented in this discuss or a blog post. Would be awesome!
Security always come first! Failover will take care of downtimes. Very good job.
You are completely right. As I said security comes first. But in general depends on applications.