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The Register has learned, thanks to a post to a semi-private mailing list, of a server that has just been decommissioned after running without replacement parts since 1997.
The post, made by a chap named Ross, says he “Just switched off our longest running server.”
Ross says the box was “Built and brought into service in early 1997” and has “been running 24/7 for 18 years and 10 months.”
“In its day, it was a reasonable machine - 200MHz Pentium, 32MB RAM, 4GB SCSI-2 drive,” Ross writes. “And up until recently, it was doing its job fine.” Of late, however the “hard drive finally started throwing errors, it was time to retire it before it gave up the ghost!” The drive's a Seagate, for those of you looking to avoid drives that can't deliver more than 19 years of error-free operations.
The FreeBSD 2.2.1 box “collected user session (connection) data summaries, held copies of invoices, generated warning messages about data and call usage (rates and actual data against limits), let them do realtime account enquiries etc.”
The server lived so long because it was fit for purpose. //
Ross reckons the server lived so long due to “a combination of good quality hardware to start with, conservatively used (not flogging itself to death), a nice environment (temperature around 18C and very stable), nicely conditioned power, no vibration, hardly ever had anyone in the server room.”
"At the time of construction, we included large, 24V case style fans with proper bearings, but running on the 12V rail. These ran slowly and quietly, yet moved plenty of air. The clean conditions probably helped them survive. All the fans were still running at the time it was switched off".
A fan dedicated to keeping the disk drive cool helped things along, as did regular checks of its filters.
WireGuard is an open-source modern VPN (Virtual Private Network) solution that utilizes cryptography protocols to create secure network connections between devices. It's efficient and offers improved reliability than traditional VPN protocols like IPSec. This guide explains how to install WireGuard VPN on a FreeBSD 14.0 and securely configure network tunnels on the server.
But if you happen to have a cloud-based Linux server running anyway, building a WireGuard VPN can be a simple and free way to add some serious, compromise-free security and privacy to your life.
If you plan to limit the VPN to just devices owned by you and a few friends, you'll probably never even notice any extra resource load on your server. Even if you had to fire up and pay for a dedicated AWS EC2 t2.micro reserved instance, the annual costs should still come out significantly cheaper than most commercial VPNs. And, as a bonus, you'll get complete control over your data.
Right now I'm going to show you how all that would work using the open source WireGuard software on an Ubuntu Linux server.
Why WireGuard? Because it's really easy to use, is designed to be particularly attack resistant, and it's so good at what it does that it was recently incorporated into the Linux kernel itself.
The actual work to make this happen really will take only five minutes - or less. Having said that, planning things out, troubleshooting for unexpected problems and, if necessary, launching a new server might add significant time to the project.
Discover and continuously monitor every SSL/TLS certificate in your network for expiration and revocation to avoid PKI-related downtime and risk.
Welcome to the Uptime Kuma wiki!
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https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/wiki/Environment-Variables
Uptime Kuma supports a lot of notifications.
For native support platforms, please read here:
https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/tree/master/server/notification-providers
Uptime Kuma is integrated Apprise which supports up to 78+ notification services. You can read the full list here:
According to a report from The Register today, Beeks Group, a cloud operator headquartered in the United Kingdom, has moved most of its 20,000-plus virtual machines (VMs) off VMware and to OpenNebula, an open source cloud and edge computing platform. Beeks Group sells virtual private servers and bare metal servers to financial service providers. It still has some VMware VMs, but “the majority” of its machines are currently on OpenNebula, The Register reported. //
According to Beeks, OpenNebula has enabled the company to dedicate more of its 3,000 bare metal server fleet to client loads instead of to VM management, as it had to with VMware. With OpenNebula purportedly requiring less management overhead, Beeks is reporting a 200 percent increase in VM efficiency since it now has more VMs on each server.
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What is TightVNC?
TightVNC is a free and Open Source remote desktop software that lets you access and control a computer over the network. With its intuitive interface, you can interact with the remote screen as if you were sitting in front of it. You can open files, launch applications, and perform other actions on the remote desktop almost as if you were physically there.
One of the most common pre-sales questions we get at rsync.net is:
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JCI now offers FreeBSD 11 Cloud Servers that provide significant enhancements over previous versions of FreeBSD. Under FreeBSD 11 you will be running a true virtual cloud server and not the more limited "jail" VPS. This allows complete independent server instances with on-the fly expandability, secure root access and custom backup capability.
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Cloudron is a turnkey solution for running apps like WordPress, Rocket.Chat, NextCloud, GitLab, OpenVPN & many more. Cloudron performs end-to-end deployment of apps including provisioning databases, automated DNS setup, certificate management, centralized user management, periodic backups. Apps on Cloudron also receive automatic updates saving you the hassle of tracking upstream releases and keeping the installation secure.
Webmin is a web-based system administration tool for Unix-like servers, and services with about 1,000,000 yearly installations worldwide. Using it, it is possible to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services or configuration files, as well as modify, and control open-source apps, such as BIND DNS Server, Apache HTTP Server, PHP, MySQL, and many more.
FileCloud is an enterprise-class file sharing and sync solution for homes or businesses that allows users to access and sync data from any device. It offers features like file sharing, backup, remote access, and sync.
aaPanel is a Free and Open source Hosting control panel, encapsulates common Linux commands into functional modules, It can be completed in a few clicks on the panel
In this tutorial we are going to install Plesk Web Admin SE Control Panel on Vultr VPS. This allows you to create 3 websites and unlimited sub-domains completely for free on per VPS instance. This free offer is limited to some VPS providers only, for other VPS providers which are not supported you will have to buy Plesk Control Panel license. So it is recommended to use Vultr VPS which offers really great performance at affordable price.
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PUSH checks allow you to send heartbeats and metrics from your servers to NodePing. Use a PUSH check for things like monitoring your servers that are behind firewalls, tracking CPU load on your Windows SQL servers, or getting alerts before you run out of disk space on your web servers.
PUSH checks are quite different from all the other check types NodePing offers. The others use our probe servers to reach out and see if your services are working correctly. With PUSH checks, you provide the monitoring results to us through an HTTP POST. You can use your own scripts or one of our many PUSH clients for Linux and Windows to push the results into NodePing.