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Don’t people use unattended upgrades?

php can be a real nightmare even with it’s well-attended upgrades :)

I don’t know. What does it tell about patches on servers (who don’t easily show their internals in such detail)?

I guess nearly everybody has installed the patch by now. Even myself :)

Maybe we are going to see “scanner” websites for such patch situations in the future, with a world map and statistics where are how many unlatched servers…

Why do we do this?

For a thorough motivation why you want ZFS, read that original article of the inventors

ZFS the Last Word in File Systems Jeff Bonwick Bill Moore docslib.org/…/zfs-the-last-word-in-file-systems-j…

There are several good overviews/tutorials about how to do it. I recommend the one in FreeBSD, even though you don’t need to actually use Freebsd for it.

docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/zfs/

Three 🙄

Also worth noting for most readers: you get 95% of the fun (your own ASN visible in bgp.tools, learning BGP hands-on) by renting a cheap VPS from providers that offer BGP sessions on a /48 or even a /24 you lease monthly. Owning the /24 outright is mainly for the permanence.

Isn’t permanence one of the major goals if you start that road at all?

Cheap fun never lasts.

How long do you keep your backups?

Yes, I have that exernal HDD lying around somewhere near the PC, and it was at least 4 or 5 times that I backed up a lot of files on it.

I think I keep it for more than 10 years now.

Hug your kids

…while you still can.

OK so 5 years is kinda game changer.
Around here, I have only ever seen 1 year.

For refurbished drives, the SMART values are reset to “new”.

Would you be satisfied if all your refurb drives live only for the duration of this warranty?

I wouldn’t. Especially as a private buyer (or a small business) I would expect that most of them must live much longer than that.

fairly cheap refurb hard drive seller

Rant:

As a private person, you should avoid refurbished hard drives like the pest!

Imagine buying a used car where the mileage counter has been reset to zero and the vehicle identification number has been tampered with, so that you cannot find out it’s history. You see that it looks shiny and you know that it has been checked (well, somewhat), but you don’t know that checklist. You even know that nobody knows that checklist.

Seriously, you can only assume the worst about this used hard drive’s real condition (years of usage, highest temperature, number of bad sectors…), and also about this reseller.

Refurbished hard drives can only be bought by data centers (or other mass users), where their failure rate is calculated by statistics, but not by 5 or 20 failed drives.

The common solution is not to replace the UPS but only the battery inside. They are standard sizes and for a cheap UPS probably around 10 - 20 bucks.

I have also seen a situation where ssh did not accept a connection anymore when the disk was full.

From what machine? Pc? Mobile? If a PC, how is it connected to the Pi? Direct cable, a switch, a WiFi…? Does the Pi use a fixed address in your home network?

Extremely stylish 🗽

I use Debian as my daily driver

Chances are that you would find Ubuntu not just more complicated, but unneccessary complicated.

Stay with Debian. It can do everything.

UPS for 1-2 minutes.

They won’t find my server ;-)

Feds are coming

…most important: I am not inside Usa.

Yes. AI agent that doesn’t even identify as such. A shame.

You have that new machine to play with. So do it.

Install it and play around. If you do nothing that should “last forever” in these first days, you can tear it down and do it again in different ways.

a version controlled markdown file

There’s a lot of genius in this idea …

Now you know that the problem is not your DNS.

It is either your routing or firewalling.

I tell it to point docmost.example.com to 192.168.1.80, […] but actually nothing happens. I get a connection timed out error.

I suggest to collect more info about this “nothing”.

ping from your PC on the inside to the name docmost.example.com

ping from your PC on the inside to the number 192.168.1.80

traceroute from your PC on the inside to the name docmost.example.com

traceroute from your PC on the inside to the number 192.168.1.80

Then do the same in the reverse direction: from that docker container to your PC.

Maybe traceroute shows you some stations on the route. Then do the same from this station.

Write down the results thoroughly.