I took my server offline almost a year ago when it was hosted on Odroid XU4. I’ve imported now the last backup I had on an LXC Ubuntu based host running inside Proxmox on an Orange Pi 5 Plus. Let’s see how it holds up this time! RAM might be an issue! Let’s see.
Category: Site Updates
Information about general site changes like: domain name change, downtime, structure changes etc
Back from the dead(land of 404)
TO: whomever is reading this SUBJECT: critical HDD failure DATA: A few weeks back one of my WD 4Tb Reds crapped out – production date said 2017 but I bought in 2018. It was no longer being recognized by the HDD controller – the usual story. Sadly it was part of an LVM volume which …
This Blog is Now Powered by Pure Docker Magic
Hey, it’s almost 2020! Who runs their web apps on bare-metal these days anymore? This past year I have been working on moving all my Odroid hosted apps to a docker setup. The last thing I had on my list was this WordPress site. I was a bit afraid of messing it all up and …
Goodbye Openshift 2
Dear RedHat, Thank you for having hosted my site for so long for free. I tried to migrate to OpenShift 3 via the Free tier but sadly the quota does not allow for everything I need to run my WordPress. So i had to move; no hard feelings – but 50 bucks/month – are you …
Using Let’s Encrypt with a PHP Application on OpenShift
Hi, Update: github.com/kuba/simp_le is dead, the github.com/zenhack/simp_le fork is to be used instead. The following post documents how I used Let’s Encrypt to secure this WordPress site which hosted on OpenShift. The following is based on this forum post/tutorial. I just made it work with virtualenv and a PHP OpenShift app. Please note that you …
Now Hosted On Openshift
Update: now secured via https with let’s encrypt. Guess what? this site is now hosted for free on RedHat’s OpenShift platform. Yey!
Debugging Go Programs with QtCreator
Debugging Go is a pain. I am not sure why the designers of this language did not include a debugger in the toolchain. In any case, GDB can be used to debug this wonderful language and I discovered that QtCreator is an alright frontend. There a few steps needed to set this up: Configure gdb …
1Password for Firefox on Linux
How to Run 1Password for Firefox(and probably Chrome) on Linux I’ve been loving 1Password for a while now and I wanted to use it on Linux as well. There is no official support from Agilebits for Linux yet. In my search I found a few ways: http://www.lucianofiandesio.com/1password-in-linux And other hacks. But in the end …
Starcraft 2 @ Dreamhack Bucharest 2013 // Year of the Terran
Hya, In case you missed it, this weekend was the Dreamhack Bucharest 2013 weekend. Lots of top players, including WCS no. 1, INnoVation faced off in a pretty nice show of SC2. It looks like in Heart of the Swarm all the top players are playing Terran. Yey! The final was TvT. There was …
Switched to a VPS for Hosting
Hello absent fans, I’ve dreamed for a while to mess around with my own VPS. Ever since I got my Raspberry PI I tried to cram as much stuff as possible into it. But… the poor thing has its limitations. So I migrated the wordpress site to a VPS on the cloud running some Ubuntu …
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