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08/05/18(Tue)10:30

The renewal date for the hosting server is in about a month and I'm thinking it makes sense for me to save £100 a year and just host the site my self on a Raspberry Pi. I've been testing it running on a spare Pi ZeroW over the weekend and it's running well, if a little slowly. I'll get a new RasPi 3B+ soon to host the site.

This will mean that the upload and especially download speeds will be slower because my internet speed is only 12mbps down and 1mbps up, so downloads for you guys will be 1mbs maximum. It's not great but it's better than spending £100 for a faster speed on a hardly used website.

If all goes well we should go full time to the RasPi server with a month.

I'll post soon with a test address so you can check the RasPi server on my network for yourselves and let me know how it works for you.

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10/06/18(Sun)13:39

Comment No.34562

will do, hoss

10/06/18(Sun)10:49

Comment No.34557

The two sites are now fully merged and hopefully any kinks ironed out. Let me know if you spot something.

09/06/18(Sat)15:46

Comment No.34553

Just moved the site over to the new server. There may be some odd things happening until while I get things sorted out. Report any problems here.

07/06/18(Thu)10:44

Comment No.34534

>>34533 Doh! I only just noticed this. There was an issue with the router and I rebooted it. I'm working on ways to monitor for network problems and fix them automatically if possible.

03/06/18(Sun)20:33

Comment No.34533

Test site loads really slow, you working on it?

16/05/18(Wed)21:59

Comment No.34526

Yeah, GDPR is a thing in the UK, for now at least. Who know what the United Krapdom will do in the future :/

16/05/18(Wed)10:34

Comment No.34522

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Just got a massive error on the Pi Bar test site both using secure and non-secure. I guess you're doing some bug hunting? Or general maintenance.

I send that error through my work-mail to you.

[original post to httpS thread]
Yeah, got the ! on the lock.
My NAS used to have that too but through Synology I got a SSL certificate from Comodo.

Maybe this site helps
https://www.xolphin.com/ssl/certificates?cur=EUR#DV_Default_1

12/05/18(Sat)08:09

Comment No.34521

>>34520 I'm unlikely to notice as it would only take a few seconds.

11/05/18(Fri)11:58

Comment No.34520

Wow, that's impressive for the people who come here.

Just a quick (prolly dumb) question. If I upload a massive big picture will you notice something on your end?

10/05/18(Thu)21:51

Comment No.34518

* Interesting Stat:
In the almost 9 years since Merlins-Bar site launched we've generated nearly 8Gb of data! That's a whole lot of crap :D

10/05/18(Thu)19:37

Comment No.34517

...should be back now. Had to recopy the file system a different way in order to get it to fill the 32Gb card :/

10/05/18(Thu)19:13

Comment No.34516

lol, I'll await for the Beta

10/05/18(Thu)17:52

Comment No.34515

And down again, got a file system problem while moving to a new SD card. Back soon...

10/05/18(Thu)15:48

Comment No.34514

...and back again :D

10/05/18(Thu)15:33

Comment No.34513

Going offline again, back soon...

10/05/18(Thu)14:09

Comment No.34512

http://test.merlins-bar.com should now be available again, and now running on a RasPi 3B :)

10/05/18(Thu)11:35

Comment No.34511

Test server will be unavailable while I change the hardware, I'll update when it's back online.

08/05/18(Tue)22:50

Comment No.34509

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I send a small...

It looks good to me. The simple design keeps the speed relatively good. I couldn't add stuff though, I guess I need a new password?

08/05/18(Tue)17:17

Comment No.34508

Sadly I'm not likely to get your internet speeds any time soon, but I think the speeds I have now will be ok. When I first started to develop Merlins-Bar I had it on my home server and that had a max speed of 0.5mbps down and 0.04mbps up :S

Be sure to take a look as http://test.merlins-bar.com and let me know if it works ok.

08/05/18(Tue)15:59

Comment No.34507

Yum pi(e)!
If I knew how to maintain a website I could do it. I have a somewhat faster line (50-down/25-up). Still have a Pi2 laying around somewhere.
Mmm..lets try your slice first. If you need anything let me know, kay?

08/05/18(Tue)10:36

Comment No.34506

test.merlins-bar.com is now available for testing :)

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