Entries tagged 'linode'

For some reason I couldn’t keep the the instances I was setting up on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) from eating themselves when I did something fancy like run apt-get update, so I moved everything back to Linode ($100 referral credit there) on one of the lowest-price Nanode compute instances.

I took the opportunity to rebuild the host on Debian just to give that a spin. My setup runs on containers managed by docker-compose, so the underlying system doesn’t matter to me that much.

I should probably be using this as an opportunity to learn some infrastructure-as-code tools.

I have been working on shutting down some of the (virtual) servers that we used for the store and other things. There were three: one for the store’s website, one for some WordPress sites/blogs, and one for this site.

The server hosting the store was the most expensive one, but now the site has been reduced to just a couple of static pages, I set those up to run off Bunny.net (that’s a referral link). That should cost a few pennies per months, so the $40 credit I have should cover that indefinitely.

I haven’t figured out what to do with the WordPress blogs, but none of them are active and I’ll probably just turn them into static sites and host them on Bunny.net, too.

The last thing is this server which could be a static site but I like tinkering my little blog engine and think I want to keep it dynamic. I may move the hosting over to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) because they offer some “always” free services that would be more than adequate. I have been really curious to play with their Arm-based compute servers but there has been no availability in the region I picked when signing up.

I need to decide how I want to set up the server on OCI to run this. I’m currently using a pretty simple docker-compose.yml setup to handle running a php-fpm container, a MySQL database server, and Sphinx, with the system nginx fronting things. I already know I want to replace Sphinx, and I think I want to try using Caddy on the front. I guess if I really wanted to be extra and take advantage of the free resources from Oracle that I’d spin up an Autonomous Database instead of using MySQL.

Between credits I have with Bunny.net and Oracle’s free offering, I’ll be paying almost nothing for hosting all of this except for the domain name renewals. That soothes my cheapskate soul.

today i upgraded the (virtual) machine that hosts this site and some others to karmic koala. in the process, i discovered that linode’s user-mode linux kernel is not up-to-date enough for that, so i had to migrate to one of their xen hosts (totally painless, and probably long overdue).

i also wrote the beginnings of an endpoint for tweetie 2’s new support for a custom image server, which explains the earlier picture of wonton. a custom url shortener will be next to come.

oh, and i made banana bread.

i finally decided to take the plunge and signed up for a virtual server at linode.com that will replace my current server colocated at a local colo facility. the host i was assigned to is in dallas. i’m a little bummed that my sites will no longer actually be hosted in los angeles, but the savings were just too tempting.

if you are looking for a 1u server that is a p4/2.4GHz with 768MB of RAM and 55GB of disk space, let me know. i’ll have one available for sale in not too long. 1055 days of uptime right now. it is no powerhouse, but maybe it would be good as a firewall or monitoring machine.

nothing important has actually been moved over yet. i’ve been getting some of the basic services up and running, and moved over some more obscure sites just to make sure i’m not doing anything stupid.