Is it in a data centre or someone’s house? If the latter, would they let a stranger in?
Surely they would need a backup and replicate db to so in case of hardware failure they switch over.
Sounds like they could improve their setup.
Comment on Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed.
souperk@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Wondering if a volunteer could go to the physical location necessary to restore service. If it’s in Athens Greece, I can make the trip.
Is it in a data centre or someone’s house? If the latter, would they let a stranger in?
Surely they would need a backup and replicate db to so in case of hardware failure they switch over.
Sounds like they could improve their setup.
Slrpnk.net admin here.
The failure seems to have been in the main firewall, if it had been the server itself we could have easily restored it on another server from the backups on another machine. But as it stands, remote access is entirely cut off.
An off-site backup would have been nice of course, but due to the costs involved in running an Lemmy instance of that size on a rented server, it would have not been a great option either.
I have plans to add a KVM to the main firewall via a secondary connection, but even that might have not helped in this case. I’ll know more when I have physical access again.
I’ve done a lot of SysAdmin and DCOps stuff in the past so, thought I’d give you some plausible suggestions (haven’t dug deep into Lemmy DB stuff and DNS/Federation of the stack, so not sure all is practical).
robak.slrpnk.net
and slrpnk.net
and point DNS appropriately.Is it run out of a private residence? How could it happen if it’s in a real data center…?
It is run from a private residence in the DIY punk spririt (and this also allows us to run of a local solar PV system), but more or less the same would happen if you rent rack-space in a “real” data-center. Only if you rent a managed server or VPS someone else will be responsible to fix such issue and this comes at a significantly higher cost at the scale we operate at (slrpnk is part of a bigger project that also hosts other services).
Appreciate the answer and the detail. Good luck getting it all resolved.
Probably quite expensive, and when doing something as a hobby it’s often hard to get the funds.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Off topic, but in Portugal was the first time me, a Central European, ever ate a ripe Papaya. Yum! Thanks to the Azores. The shit you get in the supermarkets round here is useless. Same for mangoes, usually.
pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You are in luck then, because both are climacteric fruits, meaning they continue to ripe after being harvested, due to producing ethylene gas that triggers the ripening
Throw them in a bag and let them rest at room temp. If you want to speed up the process, add a ripe banana or apple (or other ripe climacteric fruits)
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The taste just isn’t the same.
pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You might have eaten a different cultivar than those exported. In that case, I agree, there are so many different varieties that we never get to taste, supermarkets usually only have 1 or 2 different types