Continuing the setup of the new RTFM server. The next step is configuring the ability to send mail from EC2, since both important messages for the root user and RTFM itself need to send emails. I was thinking of using AWS Simple Email Service – purely to refresh my memory on how to work with… Read More »
Every time I need to do this, I have to look it up, even though I’ve written about it somewhere before – but it was a long time ago: manually increasing the disk size on an AWS EC2. You get used to Kubernetes, where it’s enough to just change a value in a PersistentVolumeClaim, and… Read More »
I looked at the costs for the infrastructure described in the previous post AWS: basic infrastructure setup for WordPress, and let out a heavy sigh: One NAT Gateway is a quarter of my AWS spend, and even with AWS Credits I can’t help feeling a bit stingy about it. There’s an option to remove the… Read More »
When I was just starting to build my NAS and thinking about backups, everything seemed pretty simple: there’s a work laptop with data, there’s a FreeBSD server for the NAS – just take and copy the data. So the initial idea was to have backup script(s) on Linux hosts that would push data to the… Read More »
For a couple of months now, my work laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 running Arch Linux, has been having trouble opening new websites – for the first 10-15 seconds, the site loads in “pieces”, for example: But then it “wakes up”, and everything starts working perfectly: Finally, when I started setting up a… Read More »
Actually, almost everything regarding my home NAS setup has been done – there is VPN access from various networks, different shares are available, and the security has been slightly tuned. Two main things remain: monitoring and backups. Having a ZFS mirror on two disks with regular ZFS snapshots is, of course, great, but it is… Read More »
The next step in the process of setting up a home NAS on FreeBSD is to add an NFS share. We set up Samba in the previous part – now we let’s add NFS shares to it. My idea is for the Samba share to be used for various media resources requiring access from phones… Read More »
Got an alert from the monitoring system this morning, indicating that the blog is down: Well, I thought: another one DDoS, not the first time. Investigating the issue I went to the Cloudflare admin, enabled the Under Attack Mode, and started the investigation. Checked the requests: I think, okay, it’s simple – requests are coming… Read More »
Problems with upgrades on Arch Linux are very rare, and a situation like today’s is a first for me in nearly 10 years of using the system. So, what happened: installed upgrades with pacman -Syu after installation, sudo reboot would hang managed to reboot only with sudo reboot -f (force) after the reboot – X.Org… Read More »
Continuing the setup of my home NAS on FreeBSD. Actually, a NAS is a Network System, and it’s desirable to have access to it from other devices – Linux and Windows hosts, phones, and TVs. Here we have two main options – Samba and NFS. One could also mention sshfs – but this solution is… Read More »