General Blather

Maybe it was the unplugged Ethernet cable. more »

Each of the contemporary servers in the farm have had some recent upgrades, usually due to age-related failures. In my mind, some of them need a little more. more »

Some, like my wife, may wonder why I have two Internet connections. It's really because I have a set-up for some servers, like the one serving this blog, and have tried to update it to faster service, but the faster service doesn't offer the bits needed… more »

For both protecting my systems and playing with what's out there, I incorporate Crowdsec into my system's intrusion detection and prevention. For other reasons, I updated one of my servers to the latest Ubuntu (not LTS), and an update to Crowdsec balked. more »

As too often happens, with the new year comes a number of things we forget to do. For many of us, it used to be writing dates, where we'd put last year for a while. Same idea, but things that only change annually sometimes need to be hunted down. more »

I've mentioned UptimeRobot.com a few times. I use it as a monitor for the websites I host. more »

The system generally runs. I have a number of external alerts now, like https://uptimerobot.com, that look at my various websites and give me alerts if the Internet fails or a service dies. So when those alerts don't go off, I tend to trust all is well. more »