<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 30, 2020, at 8:36 PM, Chirana Gheorghita Eugeniu Theodor <<a href="mailto:office@adaptcom.ro" class="">office@adaptcom.ro</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">What would be needed to have a secondary server in a new location? what setup are we talking about? </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>It’s actually rather difficult to load-balance this without adding a ton (and I mean a TON) of infrastructure that I’m not really interested in maintaining. I have spent a bit of time trying to figure out if there’s a way to cheat and not need a storage engine, but if there is, I haven’t found any pointers on how to do this.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I do have a way to do a hot standby, I may have deleted that hot standby from AWS because I was ticked off about the money they charged me for it - when it never once got used. And this still had the problem with figuring out how to implement the traffic distribution without incurring even more AWS fees.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>So, long story short - yes, I could do better. No, every time I start down that rat hole I either get stuck with a really gnarly technical issue that I can’t figure out or, more commonly, I get annoyed by how quickly this adds up to being even more money that I spend on Subsurface every month. The beauty of the current situation is that outside the (grumble, grumble) hours that I spend on this, there isn’t really any additional cost. I have the bandwidth, I have the VMware vSphere multi host home lab setup like any reasonable… never mind, I have a fun home setup anyway so I have the capacity to host all of it here… so that’s what I do :-)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>And most of the time it works pretty well. Today’s outage blew my 99.99% average that I’ve been aiming for, but overall, it’s not too bad :-]</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 01:31 Rick Walsh via subsurface <<a href="mailto:subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">To conserve money, much of the infrastructure is actually running in my basement.<br class="">
All of course on a UPS, with redundant internet connection, etc.<br class="">
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Power went out today. And my UPS failed.<br class=""></blockquote><div class="">I've always wondered what that U in UPS actually stands for.<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Oh, speaking of saving money… yeah, I bought a new UPS. Oh, and one of my little NUCs needed a bigger NVMe M.2 SSD.</div><div>So maybe I really don’t understand how to save money :-)</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">Thank you for keeping this all going; there is no need to apologize. I work for a Fortune 500 company with various forms of IT infrastructure provided and supported by the likes of Microsoft, IBM and Bentley - presumably for an obscene fee. Yet somehow a server in your basement running at your own expense is more reliable, and when it falters you get it back up and running in a few hours and manage not to lose data.<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>You are SO KIND. Thank you for those words. I needed them this week :-/</div><div><br class=""></div><div>/D</div><br class=""></body></html>