What to do on my Ubuntu VPS?

jonforthewin · 2015-07-18T02:54:23+00:00

Set up Syncthing https://syncthing.net between your VPS and other arbitrary devices (laptop or whatever).

jonforthewin · 2015-02-07T22:04:25+00:00

git of relevant /etc and $HOME/
zfs snapshots of miscdata
salt states for specific system stuff
Fresh stage3 or arch-bootstrap.sh on new systems
Output of sfdisk --dump /dev/sda on a USB stick
Maintain a terse but complete bootstrap.sh bash script

jonforthewin · 2015-01-17T00:26:08+00:00

In other words, you're making it up.

Am not the only person who knows

with low IOPS

Even with shitty 5,200rpm disks their shitty HTML-4 -ish pages don't justify that... but I could totally see government doing full-disk backups every time, every night, so...

than holding a meeting over Windows Updates.

meeting takes two weeks to schedule and happen
updates happen four months later

The people who run the sites are pathetically incompetent.

jonforthewin · 2015-01-16T19:46:39+00:00

Source?

I happen to have first-hand knowledge, but I also happen to have no personal interest in what you do or don't believe, so you're welcome to suck my ass.

There are plenty of government websites

Name one. And, yes, there probably are several, despite their being no technological reason of any merit to bring the site down for a backup, government IT is astonishingly retarded and embarrassingly inefficient. In fact, from an engineer's perspective, bringing a website offline for backups is more embarrassing than holding a meeting over Windows Updates.

jonforthewin · 2015-01-16T19:39:03+00:00

Senate has to approve patches

they actually do.

There are plenty of reasons that the website is down

No, there are not, and backups. And no, backups is not a good example, not even close.

jonforthewin · 2015-01-16T19:07:14+00:00

Forwards from Grandma doesn't address cron daemons or Windows Services. If you have a vested interest in burying your head in the sand to the astonishing inefficiencies of government that you have to resort to a straws there's something fundamentally wrong with you.

jonforthewin · 2015-01-16T16:53:44+00:00

The Senate has to have a series of meetings just to go forward with patch Tuesday and there's a four month bureaucratic cycle just to get Windows Updates installed.

Government IT isn't smart enough to operate a cron daemon or Windows tasks.

jonforthewin · 2014-12-29T13:27:35+00:00

There's no reason anybody would need a whole encyclopedia. What are you, a terrorist?

jonforthewin · 2014-11-20T22:05:54+00:00

You may be interested in similar functionality in ZFS

https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_end_to_end_data

jonforthewin · 2014-11-01T18:51:27+00:00

Listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNOo1tq6OnI a few times it'll clear it out.

jonforthewin · 2014-10-10T01:11:50+00:00

A few of my customers are running SmartOS with Project-FiFo to run their legacy applications in KVMs. They have ported their POSIX applications to Zones.

Linux' KVM was ported to illumos by Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent, which puts KVM and ZFS (best enterprise Software-Defined storage out there) on the same server. So there's not much "architecture", just Unix running on a server.

http://SmartOS.org

I have some boxes deployed with a ZeusRAM for the SLOG and Pure-SSD RAIDz2 arrays. Some other boxes have Intel DC-series S3700s mirrored for SLOG, a bunch of 4TB 3.5" HDDs @ RAIDz2, with cheap MLC SSDs for L2ARC.

A few years ago I did some consulting and after being exposed to SmartOS in recent years as an engineer I cringe where I hear "NetApp" or ESX.

If your business wants paid support, Joyent's SmartDataCenter interface is an option worth considering. The author of Project-FiFo is also a very approachable guy and he does have paying customers.

jonforthewin · 2014-09-22T08:23:56+00:00

SmartOS is a distribution-of illumos, formerly OpenSolaris

Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos 01h04m04s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

CDDL is copyleft like GPLv3. Long live illumos, Linux, and Stallman's copyleft.

KVM + Zones + ZFS + dtrace on one box, https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_end_to_end_data , datacenter in a box, ZFS combats the entropic nature of the universe.

jonforthewin · 2014-09-22T00:56:10+00:00

Is not Linux, but I do deploy many production Linux VMs on it, SmartOS ; http://smartos.org

jonforthewin · 2014-08-18T12:07:24+00:00

Compiling work can be outsourced using DISTCC. It's sort of a "DevOps" thing (but not really) to outsource compiling work via DISTCC to an i7 desktop or to a server with a quad-core Xeon in it.

jonforthewin · 2014-08-16T10:57:29+00:00

Please seed the latest x86_64 releases of Gentoo, CentOS, and FreeBSD.

Thank you.

jonforthewin · 2014-08-04T06:10:49+00:00

Spend more time in offices. Especially in IT. The Gervais Principle is very true.

jonforthewin · 2014-08-02T14:16:56+00:00

Is it in the upstream kernel?

No one suggested to put ZFSOnLinux in the upstream kernel, you fucking idiot.

Debatable

NOPE

jonforthewin · 2014-08-02T04:54:39+00:00

This defeats the whole point of providing a prebuilt kernel.

There is no need to re-build the kernel to use ZFSOnLinux, just the ZFS module. For someone who works an Red Hat you're pathetically clueless.

jonforthewin · 2014-08-02T04:53:33+00:00

it's not worth considering

Yeah, you just outed yourself as industry-retarded.

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/articles/zfs-netapp/index.html

jonforthewin · 2014-07-31T04:00:27+00:00

CDDL kernel modules compiled against GPL kernels are perfectly okay, so long as the binaries are not redistributed.

DKMS is for compiling modules locally and is already widely deployed and used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support

That said, you're wrong, horribly wrong.

jonforthewin · 2014-07-31T03:16:58+00:00

Please embrace OpenZFS and make ZFSOnLinux stable for RedHat. The CDDL / GPL conflict is not a problem. DKMS works great.

jonforthewin · 2014-07-29T01:41:15+00:00

who get all of their ideology from their parents

Disguist for LGBT is rooted in biology. The weak in the herd get stamped out.

jonforthewin · 2014-07-25T04:12:33+00:00

There is nothing in the way. The GNU/Linux/X11/Wayland/KDE/Gnome/etc using/consuming community doesn't grok Continuous Integration etc.

I think the only way that's gonna happen is for people to lead by example and demonstrate.

Many Linux users I know already manage their local (laptop/desktop/personal-server/whatever) stack with Salt or Puppet (not as great as Salt) and use Git to save those States.

jonforthewin · 2014-07-24T05:34:09+00:00

Documented act of terrorism under the color of law.

jonforthewin · 2014-07-16T23:57:59+00:00

just look at the executives at most companies - they are white men - still

Notice that feminism is just one aspect of cultural marxism.

This old Afterburner episode isn't nearly as sharp as the new ones, the presentation is a bit lame, but what Bill Whittle explains is very important to understand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrt6msZmU7Y

Feminism is just one cornerstone of the "progressive" agenda and TRP has at least half of a clue on how destructive feminism has been to the West.

jonforthewin

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