I recently started using unRAID for my server at home, and I figured I’d do a rough write-up of how I configured mine and some design decisions I made along the way. What is unRAID? For the uninitiated, unRAID is “a scalable, consumer-oriented, server operating system. Traditional approaches to personal computing technology place […]
So I spent an hour and a half fixing this, so hopefully someone comes across this post and it helps them. My issue was that the OpenVPN adapter on my Windows 7 computer was an Unidentified network and I couldn’t change it. Because of this, it didn’t follow the right […]
So, as a result of not understanding Amazon EC2 and not having backups, I’ve lost some months of data and changes to the server. You can believe I now have backups.
So, I experienced quite a bit of data loss and was forced to restore the site from a quite dated backup. I won’t be re-writing the posts that were lost for now, but I will be setting up a more resilient backup solution, most likely off-site. Sucks.
I installed CGIProxy on the server here. You’ll have to ask for the login information, but I hope to eventually have a working SSL proxy to replace the SSH proxy I currently have. I am hesitant to, because SSH can do file transfers too, but I can always do file […]
So this server now runs an IRC. Just point your client here on port 6667 or so and it should connect. I idle in #chat, come stop by sometime! 🙂
I reinstalled everything and all my data was backed up, but I’m hesitant to set up Minecraft again. Does anyone even care? In any case, I’ve hosted a ZIP of the minecraft server, in full if anyone wants it. Link here
So, I broke the server and now I can’t run things as root. Also, the Minecraft portion was stopped. It will be fixed within the hour. [EDIT: So, I have no idea what happened, but here is a step-by-step process of what broke: 1. I misformat /etc/sudoers. I cannot log […]
