All quiet? Kind of!
Its been very quiet on the project front, at least what I can report on here. The increasing power bills have seen my enterprise servers go into a perpetual “cold and dark” condition. All primary functions are running on the pair of RPi4’s and a single RPi3. There is a big project a foot. I […]
Migration complete, and its looking good.
Its taken a while but I have now completed the migration of all my “always on” computing services to the two Raspberry Pi’s, both running Ubuntu. So before I had three enterprise servers. One was acting as a NAS, plus running the web services on a virtual machine. Also it ran the weather station services. […]
And migration once more, more…
So running this site on the RPi3 proved problematic. So I have migrated again. This time I have dropped the SQL relational database for the faster, and less memory hungry, “MariaDB”. Additionally I have migrated off the RPi3 and onto an RPi4-2GB. A significant improvement. Additional advantages are that the external Hard disk is now […]
Migration once more
You might notice this site is a little slow. There is, of course, a reason. Stupidly high fuel bills. It has come to pass that Gas and Electricity prices have literally gone through the roof and I am expecting my bill to more than double. Under these circumstances I cannot justify the operation of my […]
Moving to new hardware
This website is now being hosted by my DL380 Gen 7 server, well, one of them anyway. I have migrated it off of the DL360 because – I have more spares for the DL380. The DL380 has a ton more disk space. There is a power saving to be had here. The down side is […]
This is actually true…
Did you miss me?
Probably not, but I was missing for while. This site, all my sites, were down. I have closed down the incredibly thirsty Enterprise Servers and spent some cash on duplicating the hardware that drives the weather station. The big problem was justification of the running costs. It was running into pounds per day. So it […]
Server cloning
Todays success was to figure out how to clone the WP database from the live server to the backup server. Two parts required. First copy the document folder tree over, which is easily down through SAMBA, although I do have to go and change file ownership afterwards. Second is dump the SQL database out the […]
We have lift off
Wow! I would never have believe that this website building, hosting, server running, would take off like it has. Not this site. Who is going to read this? Maybe a few. No, I refer to my weather page, over at www.westcountryweather.co.uk. Linked from the Facebook page of the same name and complimenting it. I had […]
Didn’t think this through really.
Last night I published the new weather page to my Facebook group. I had fitted a visitor counter to the site and this evening it had gathered about 30 hits. Excellent!! Exceeeptttt……. Ah! The plan was to take the server down during the summer due to the noise, heat and power consumption, and to let […]