We all love maxscale for running our mariadb galara clusters! But how to make the best of it. The temptation most people have is to have one, or maybe two maxscale servers connecting into the database cluster, but I’ve found a way that works really well. On each server that connects to the database cluster, […]
The secret that can break servers
So I run a NextCloud installation called wolf-cloud. https://cloud.wolf-grid.com Yesterday the OpenOffice server stopped talking to the nextcloud server complaining it had a token issue, plus when I went to do a proxmox backup of the nextcloud server it hung. I thought at first we had some kind of issue with proxmox or the hardware. […]
Tailscale your own private network
So I have backup servers, they are set up in fact to mirror the live servers, so I need them on the internet but only with a static IP for my use. Tailscale installed on my local machine and the servers on the network allows me to set up such a network. It works fine […]
Why use MINO object storage?
Let’s face it folks hosting anything on the major providers is very expensive, overly expensive when you can build it yourself. MINO object storage I love, I’ve got a big deployment of it and at the moment it’s over 1.4 million objects. It’s fast and very stable. You can have multi-server, multi-drive setups across multiple […]
Oh no I lost my linux username?!
It just literally happend to me. I was just going to rewew a certificate and I realised that I’d not accessed the server for a year! How cool is that, the server has been up for nearly a year. Anyway went to login, couldn’t remember my login name. So by design this server is one […]
VPN Static IP’s an alternative to dyndns.
So under my desk here I have an old tower, it’s kinda nice but not over powered so I decided to set it up as a Proxmox node on my cluster (which is in Germany!). Because I’m in a shared office I’m not even sure if they can provide dedicated IP and as it was […]