From 20470eab9c62938406a7401d2ed2a9dc7111972f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Buetow Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 22:17:10 +0200 Subject: Update content for gemtext --- gemfeed/2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi | 8 ++++---- .../2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi.tpl | 8 ++++---- gemfeed/atom.xml | 12 ++++++------ index.gmi | 2 +- uptime-stats.gmi | 2 +- 5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/gemfeed/2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi b/gemfeed/2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi index ddfcb3b6..207d27b4 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi +++ b/gemfeed/2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ > Published at 2024-03-30T22:12:56+02:00 ``` -Art by Michael J. Penick (mod. by Paul B) +Art by Michael J. Penick (mod. by Paul B.) __________ / nsd tower\ ( @@ -29,16 +29,16 @@ _____|_:_:_| (o)-(o) |_:_:_|--'`-. ,--. ksh under-water (((\'/ I have always wanted a highly available setup for my personal websites. I could have used off-the-shelf hosting solutions or hosted my sites in an AWS S3 bucket. I have used technologies like BGP, LVS/IPVS, ldirectord, Pacemaker, heartbeat, heartbeat2, Corosync, keepalived, DRBD, and commercial F5 Load Balancers for high availability at work. -But still, my personal sites were never highly available. All those technologies are great for professional use, but I was looking for something much more straightforward for my personal space—something as KISS (keep it simple and stupid) as possible. +But still, my personal sites were never highly available. All those technologies are great for professional use, but I was looking for something much more straightforward for my personal space - something as KISS (keep it simple and stupid) as possible. It would be fine if my personal website wasn't highly available, but the geek in me wants it anyway. -> PS: ASCII-art reflects the OpenBSD under-water world with all the tools available in the base system. +> PS: ASCII-art reflects an OpenBSD under-water world with all the tools available in the base system. ## My auto-failover requirements * Be OpenBSD-based (I prefer OpenBSD because of the cleanliness and good documentation) and rely on as few external packages as possible. -* Don't rely on the hottest and newest tech (don't want to migrate everything to a new and fancier technology next month). +* Don't rely on the hottest and newest tech (don't want to migrate everything to a new and fancier technology next month already). * It should be reasonably cheap. I want to avoid paying a premium for floating IPs or fancy Elastic Load Balancers. * It should be geo-redundant. * It's fine if my sites aren't reachable for five or ten minutes every other month. Due to their static nature, I don't care if there's a split-brain scenario where some requests reach one server and other requests reach another server. diff --git a/gemfeed/2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi.tpl b/gemfeed/2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi.tpl index 5ef32b35..e94b727e 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi.tpl +++ b/gemfeed/2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi.tpl @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ > Published at 2024-03-30T22:12:56+02:00 ``` -Art by Michael J. Penick (mod. by Paul B) +Art by Michael J. Penick (mod. by Paul B.) __________ / nsd tower\ ( @@ -29,16 +29,16 @@ _____|_:_:_| (o)-(o) |_:_:_|--'`-. ,--. ksh under-water (((\'/ I have always wanted a highly available setup for my personal websites. I could have used off-the-shelf hosting solutions or hosted my sites in an AWS S3 bucket. I have used technologies like BGP, LVS/IPVS, ldirectord, Pacemaker, heartbeat, heartbeat2, Corosync, keepalived, DRBD, and commercial F5 Load Balancers for high availability at work. -But still, my personal sites were never highly available. All those technologies are great for professional use, but I was looking for something much more straightforward for my personal space—something as KISS (keep it simple and stupid) as possible. +But still, my personal sites were never highly available. All those technologies are great for professional use, but I was looking for something much more straightforward for my personal space - something as KISS (keep it simple and stupid) as possible. It would be fine if my personal website wasn't highly available, but the geek in me wants it anyway. -> PS: ASCII-art reflects the OpenBSD under-water world with all the tools available in the base system. +> PS: ASCII-art reflects an OpenBSD under-water world with all the tools available in the base system. ## My auto-failover requirements * Be OpenBSD-based (I prefer OpenBSD because of the cleanliness and good documentation) and rely on as few external packages as possible. -* Don't rely on the hottest and newest tech (don't want to migrate everything to a new and fancier technology next month). +* Don't rely on the hottest and newest tech (don't want to migrate everything to a new and fancier technology next month already). * It should be reasonably cheap. I want to avoid paying a premium for floating IPs or fancy Elastic Load Balancers. * It should be geo-redundant. * It's fine if my sites aren't reachable for five or ten minutes every other month. Due to their static nature, I don't care if there's a split-brain scenario where some requests reach one server and other requests reach another server. diff --git a/gemfeed/atom.xml b/gemfeed/atom.xml index 0bfcbebe..a8ae9366 100644 --- a/gemfeed/atom.xml +++ b/gemfeed/atom.xml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ - 2024-03-30T22:13:12+02:00 + 2024-03-30T22:16:56+02:00 foo.zone feed To be in the .zone! @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Paul Buetow aka snonux paul@dev.buetow.org - Art by Michael J. Penick (mod. by Paul B) + Art by Michael J. Penick (mod. by Paul B.)

KISS high-availability with OpenBSD


@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Published at 2024-03-30T22:12:56+02:00

-Art by Michael J. Penick (mod. by Paul B)
+Art by Michael J. Penick (mod. by Paul B.)
 
         __________
        / nsd tower\                                             (
@@ -49,17 +49,17 @@ _____|_:_:_|  (o)-(o)  |_:_:_|--'`-.     ,--. ksh under-water (((\'/
 
I have always wanted a highly available setup for my personal websites. I could have used off-the-shelf hosting solutions or hosted my sites in an AWS S3 bucket. I have used technologies like BGP, LVS/IPVS, ldirectord, Pacemaker, heartbeat, heartbeat2, Corosync, keepalived, DRBD, and commercial F5 Load Balancers for high availability at work.

-But still, my personal sites were never highly available. All those technologies are great for professional use, but I was looking for something much more straightforward for my personal space—something as KISS (keep it simple and stupid) as possible.
+But still, my personal sites were never highly available. All those technologies are great for professional use, but I was looking for something much more straightforward for my personal space - something as KISS (keep it simple and stupid) as possible.

It would be fine if my personal website wasn't highly available, but the geek in me wants it anyway.

-PS: ASCII-art reflects the OpenBSD under-water world with all the tools available in the base system.
+PS: ASCII-art reflects an OpenBSD under-water world with all the tools available in the base system.

My auto-failover requirements



  • Be OpenBSD-based (I prefer OpenBSD because of the cleanliness and good documentation) and rely on as few external packages as possible.
  • -
  • Don't rely on the hottest and newest tech (don't want to migrate everything to a new and fancier technology next month).
  • +
  • Don't rely on the hottest and newest tech (don't want to migrate everything to a new and fancier technology next month already).
  • It should be reasonably cheap. I want to avoid paying a premium for floating IPs or fancy Elastic Load Balancers.
  • It should be geo-redundant.
  • It's fine if my sites aren't reachable for five or ten minutes every other month. Due to their static nature, I don't care if there's a split-brain scenario where some requests reach one server and other requests reach another server.
  • diff --git a/index.gmi b/index.gmi index 053bc44b..383e987e 100644 --- a/index.gmi +++ b/index.gmi @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # foo.zone -> This site was generated at 2024-03-30T22:14:16+02:00 by `Gemtexter` +> This site was generated at 2024-03-30T22:16:56+02:00 by `Gemtexter` ``` |\---/| diff --git a/uptime-stats.gmi b/uptime-stats.gmi index 408c0d8b..0c0f6411 100644 --- a/uptime-stats.gmi +++ b/uptime-stats.gmi @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # My machine uptime stats -> This site was last updated at 2024-03-30T22:14:16+02:00 +> This site was last updated at 2024-03-30T22:16:56+02:00 The following stats were collected via `uptimed` on all of my personal computers over many years and the output was generated by `guprecords`, the global uptime records stats analyser of mine. -- cgit v1.2.3