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  • Hello IndieWeb. I'm here with a new website. It's really basic, but based on a new improved version of my engine and should be blazing fast! I also had a hardware upgrade - now I'm using an old notebook instead of a Raspberry Pi. The RPi itself is ok, just needs a software upgrade.
    Portland, Oregon
    Mon, Sep 2, 2019 12:11am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Sep 1, 2019 5:14pm -07:00) #IndieWeb #server #pyindieblog
  • Several Days of Server Migrations Later...

    I just spent two days finishing migrating the last of my old websites and services off my old server and into new homes. This project has been on my todo list for over two years, and I've been making slow progress since then, mostly by spending a day on it here and there.I finally finished moving the last things off the server today. The last two things left were my Twitter streaming search script and a really old MediaWiki website. Both were running on a 6-year old operating system, and under deprecated versions of Ruby and PHP. The MediaWiki instance had been EOL since 2012. The OpenSSL library was so old the Heartbleed bug hadn't even been written yet. Other things on that server were a Gitlab install (which I replaced with Gogs in February), my own SSL root authority (which is significantly less useful now that Letsencrypt makes certificates free and easy), an old web app I haven't used since 2009, and many cobbled together scripts.This was quite a painful process all told, and I would like to avoid getting into this this situation in the future. Here are some things I'm planning to do that will help make the upgrade process easier in the future.Upgrade regularlySpend the time it takes to upgrade the whole server (OS as well as application dependencies) every 3-6 months, instead of letting the machine get to be several years old. The whole reason I got into this situation in the first place is the OS was so old incremental upgrades were no longer possible. Updating the OS, PHP/Ruby versions, and applications regularly means smaller incremental changes rather than getting into a situation where your app no longer runs because the scripting language changed so much since the last upgrade.Separate the web and database serversI've had a separate database server for a long time. The main benefit this gives me is I'm able to move the source code for a website to a new server without having to also worry about migrating the database at the same time. It's one less moving part in the migration process, and I will continue to do this in the future.Productize everythingSome of these projects and websites were so old that I didn't actually have them in Git repos yet. Some of them were in Subversion, some were just piles of files on disk. A few of them shared a common set of files on the server, rather than using any sort of package management and proper dependency chain. Of course my more recent projects are much better packaged, but I had forgotten I had not always done things this way. Making each project a self-contained application with its own Git repo makes it easier to move them around to new servers later.Avoid using servers in the first placeThese days, we have many options for running applications without dealing with the underlying operating system. Google AppEngine (on which I currently run indiewebify.me and xray.p3k.io), Amazon Lambda (where I run ca3db), and Heroku to name a few. Once a service is running in infrastructure such as these, you can forget worrying about the underlying operating system updates, and focus on your application logic. The service providers will handle everything under the hood and you can forget that upgrading OpenSSL is a thing that needs to happen.
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    Tue, Apr 5, 2016 7:02pm -07:00 #indieweb #server #migration #ops #database
  • Aaron Parecki
    Just imported my #500lattes project into my new site, one step closer to shutting down my really old server!
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    Wed, Feb 10, 2016 10:49pm -08:00 #p3k #server
  • Four Linux server monitoring tools (aarvik.dk)
    Sun, Jan 26, 2014 8:58am -08:00 #linux #monitoring #ops #server
  • A set of Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud: email, calendar, contacts, file sync, IRC bouncer, VPN, and more. (github.com)
    Sun, Jan 12, 2014 9:46am -08:00 #indieweb #ownyourdata #server #vps
  • Real-time dashboard for redis (www.nkrode.com)
    Wed, Aug 8, 2012 12:19pm -07:00 #monitoring #redis #server #tools #utilities
  • How To Set Up A Loadbalanced High-Availability Apache Cluster (www.howtoforge.com)
    Tue, Nov 8, 2011 2:38am -08:00 #apache #high-availability #linux #load-balancer #server #web
  • Build your own Open Street Map Server (weait.com)
    Thu, Oct 27, 2011 11:07am -07:00 #google maps #mapping #maps #openstreetmaps #osm #server #tileserver
  • Receiving Emails with Ruby on Rails (capturedsparks.com)
    Sun, Oct 16, 2011 9:51am -07:00 #email #parse #ruby #server
  • Node.js is Cancer (teddziuba.com)
    Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:39am -07:00 #node.js #programming #scaling #server #web
  • Ubuntu Server Guide (help.ubuntu.com)
    Mon, Sep 19, 2011 9:12pm -07:00 #howto #server #ubuntu
  • DIY node.js server on Amazon EC2 (cuppster.com)
    Tue, May 17, 2011 11:06am -07:00 #amazon #ec2 #linux #nodejs #server #virtualizing
  • What to tune in MySQL Server after installation (www.mysqlperformanceblog.com)
    Sat, May 14, 2011 7:37am -07:00 #mysql #scaling #server
  • Lucene Solr (lucene.apache.org)
    Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project.
    Thu, Apr 21, 2011 11:54am -07:00 #geo #geoloqi #indexing #java #scaling #search #server
  • Building a Non-Trivial App in Node.js (skookum.com)
    Mon, Apr 4, 2011 5:48pm -07:00 #deploy #infrastructure #node #nodejs #scaling #server
  • Prosody IM (prosody.im)
    Thu, Mar 31, 2011 7:48am -07:00 #chat #IM #jabber #phono #real-time #server
  • Remote Growl Notifications (www.wiredfool.com)
    Tue, Mar 22, 2011 3:46pm -07:00 #growl #notifications #remote #server
  • Mailchimp API (bakery.cakephp.org)
    Sat, Feb 12, 2011 8:13pm -08:00 #api #email #linux #mailchimp #mailinglists #server
  • Orbited (orbited.org)
    Sat, Feb 12, 2011 1:12pm -08:00 #ajax #browser #chat #irc #javascript #orbited #server #tcp
  • DreamPlug ARM box boosts plug computing (www.thinq.co.uk)
    Tue, Feb 1, 2011 3:40pm -08:00 #computer #hardware #home automation #linux #plug #server #tiny
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

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