You may have noticed that HC was unreachable for a few hours. This was likely caused by planned maintenance by the ISP, but my existing router doesn’t recover very well from these events and this happened while I was sleeping.

The good news is this router is being replaced later today anyway, ironically enough, with a 16 core monster. This also means there will have to be another outage at some point, but I will announce this one and things will settle down after that.

Anyway this happens very rarely (I hope I don’t jinx it lol), but don’t panic when it does, it’s only temporary and HC is coming back.

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    10 months ago

    There’s probably a bunch of videos on YouTube about setting it up that might be worth following. Some of those Router OSs aren’t super user friendly. Mikrotik for instance can be a pain in the ass but it is super powerful.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah for sure, I’ve been buried in videos, wikis and forums.

      Yes it’s not user friendly but pretty powerful as you say, I think I’ve gotten the hang of it now though, at least everything seems to be working as intended.

      I was relaxing at the end of the day when I set this up, when I suddenly realized that HC wasn’t able to reach my mail server (hence my test replies below while I was troubleshooting). It’s like every router/firewall handles accessing a local server through the domain/public IP slightly differently, it’s weird.