Upgrades to ~KNS Rosalina
I've finally been able to purchase a CPU upgrade for ~KNS Rosalina, which should arrive in a couple weeks. Hopefully, this will help improve Rosalina's performance and mitigate the added strain on its resources since Luma's failure in January.
~KNS will be temporarily offline during the upgrade and maintenance process, which may last a few hours. I will issue additional notices closer to the time of the upgrade.
Storage upgrade complete!
Rosalina's filesystem has been successfully transferred to an SSD to increase performance (before, disk I/O on the hard drive was getting up to 100% so frequently that this Friendica server would regularly become unresponsive). I've decided to go with btrfs for its self-healing and snapshotting capabilities, but I might end up having to mount the
/var partition with nodatacow—we'll see how the SQL server performs.I... could probably also have just used a subvolume and
chattr +C as needed, but at least this makes things slightly less painful if I end up needing to switch that partition to XFS or something else.
~KNS Outage
On January 28, 2023 at approximately 16:45 UTC, I became aware of a total system failure on ~KNS Luma, the primary server.
I am currently in the process of restoring ~KNS to full operation. Current recovery status is listed here, and a full post-mortem will be published later.
~KNS will never run on Cloudflare.
No VPSes, no CDNs, no MITMs. Just a physical server box connected to the Internet. That's the promise I made when I started self-hosting, and it's a promise I intend to keep.
To date, the only "outsourced" part of the ~KNS infrastructure is an e-mail relay provided by a trusted friend of mine. Every other service is fully home-grown, running entirely on real hardware that I physically own. Because privacy and digital autonomy is important to me, and I refuse to compromise on my values for the companies attempting a hostile takeover of the Internet.
Stop using Cloudflare. Start self-hosting. Let's fight for a free Internet run by people, not corporations.
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Maintenance notice for ~keith/cloud
~keith/cloud is now being updated to the latest Nextcloud version. It will be unavailable during this process, which may take a few hours. I apologize for any inconvenience.
Updates to ~keith/bytes
The ~keith/bytes code forge is now being updated from Gitea 1.17 to Forgejo's federated branch. It will be unavailable during this process, which may take a few hours. I apologize for any inconvenience.
Well, I finally got around to creating a little "old Web"-style icon for ~Keith Network Services (the collection of infrastructure and services I operate):
So this account exists now! I'll probably use this to share updates about infrastructure status and ~KNS-related projects. This isn't a "professional" profile, though, just a more focused one. (This is the Friendica instance where I yearn about furry bulges, I think the professionalism ship has sailed out of the galaxy by now.)
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