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.

  • SJ0
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    11 months ago

    I run most of my own services, sucks when something unforeseeable like that happens.

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      11 months ago

      It really does, especially when the timing is shit, I think I had gone to bed 30 minutes or so before this occurred.

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    11 months ago

    I hope those 16 cores go for something other than a router 😂.

    BTW, what OS will you be using?

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      11 months ago

      🤣 This is an actual router router, so being a router is the only thing it knows how to do lol

      I have been using pfSense until now, it works well but it has some really annoying quirks (can become unstable sometimes when you change config and requires a reboot). I’ve been meaning to move away from it ever since the pfSense+ licensing drama, even though I really like its GUI and features.

      I was also running HAProxy on it because it was so convenient, but I have meanwhile migrated it to a server VM in preparation for this move.

      I’d rather not say on the Internet what the new router make/model is, but it’s complete overkill. I will be using the manufacturer OS.

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        11 months ago

        Sometimes it’s just fine to use a stock is for devices. Especially when you don’t want to constantly screw around.

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          I agree, I only really need it to act as a router and firewall, other services are nice but I’ve got those set up separately anyway.

          It’s a rack mounted enterprise grade machine, so its OS is pretty powerful. The downside is I’m not familiar with it so I’m bumbling around a bit now trying to set it up lol. Ideally I want to get it to where I just need to transplant the main switch over and everything will keep on working, that’s my plan anyway. I’m making progress, I still hope to do it later today.

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            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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              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.

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    11 months ago

    thx for the heads up and work, appreciated

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    Thanks for the update. The new router sounds like a beast.

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    11 months ago

    It’s fine.

    I think I should go into this hosting for personal use, but I am insensitive due to company issues and I carry my connection with me.

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      It’s a fun hobby, I enjoy it. You can start off small, a raspberry pi can be plenty of fun for example.

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        You don’t even need a pi. A VPS would do the job. Most good VPS companies offer money back for the first 14 days after purchase. Some even offer it 30 days after purchase

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          This is true, it’s just a nice feeling to self-host things