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Moving my Blog off of Linode and back Home (Sort of)

18 points by monstermunch 3y ago

onlypositive 3y ago
> So I added a second A record in CloudFlare for the blog to my home address, and again utilized the CloudFlare Proxy Services. Is cloudflare detecting downtime via their proxy or something? I don't understand how you can pull the plug and have your VPS route not eventually fall over once cf's cache invalidates. Do browsers try both if one server fails?
- monstermunch 3y ago
  Honestly I'm not 100% sure. Full A record failover is a paid feature which I don't pay for, but it seems like adding 2 A records does more than just round robin the DNS If from a test machine I am loading the site via the VPS and I power it down, as soon as I refresh the page it ends up pointing home with zero downtime
  - onlypositive 3y ago
    I guess the proxy IP is the same. They must just run a single tunnel per hostname with multiple upstreams. Nice find ;)
tamimio 3y ago
Good read, I did before similar setup although the CF was pointing to a load balancer instead. Also, why would you point it at your home if the blog is already served from in the VPS through wireguard? And lastly, why’s that complicated setup for a blog.. unless there are other details aren’t mentioned, I think it’s an overkill for a blog.
- onlypositive 3y ago
  I have a feeling this is temporary to do a server upgrade on the VPS which might run other stuff too. Doesn't make sense to go through all that effort to hide your IP and keep port 80 on pfsense blocked just to open it all up anyway.
- monstermunch 3y ago
  The main reason is so that if I'm updated the VPS or there is an outage, it still works. Its complicated going over the tunnel and out the VPS, but it lets me make the site available no matter which ISP my home is running on (Since I have 2) I also need the VPS and tunnel for other things, like Rekor Scout inbound communication
dmvdoug 3y ago
This is single-handedly the weirdest blog I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s post after post after post after post showing tens and tens of thousands of dollars equipment and… Nothing else. It’s like hardware porn. You get no sense of who this person is and in fact he begins to sound like an advertisement. There are no furnishings in the house that you can see. The backyard sometimes has trees and sometimes doesn’t. I literally don’t think this person is real.
- 70rd 3y ago
  Huh? I quickly scrolled through and he does mention a move which could explain the tree change. This is a pretty generic homelab, there's communities built around the hobby on reddit or lemmy. It's 10k+ of equipement at retail but people in IT often get inside deals on old equipment that's being upgraded.
  - dmvdoug 3y ago
    Right, it took me reading four or five entries before I started to notice that it was really not normal. And every single post is about an expensive new hardware purchase. Not just computers. Two motorcycles. A generator. Another generator. Solar panels (with accompanying drone footage of the overhead view). And then each post he hopefully points to some Houston-area business where you, too, can get your Hardware on. It looks like guerrilla marketing aimed at nerds and tinkerers to me.
    - monstermunch 3y ago
      >And then each post he hopefully points to some Houston-area business where you, too, can get your Hardware on. Uhh, where? No I don't... Man I just like cool things :(
  - monstermunch 3y ago
    Yep pretty much, I got it all used and over the span of 10+ years. Selling old stuff to fund new stuff, and a fair amount of NFR stuff from vendors
- 3y ago

18 points by monstermunch 3y ago

> So I added a second A record in CloudFlare for the blog to my home address, and again utilized the CloudFlare Proxy Services. Is cloudflare detecting downtime via their proxy or something? I don't understand how you can pull the plug and have your VPS route not eventually fall over once cf's cache invalidates. Do browsers try both if one server fails?

monstermunch 3y ago
Honestly I'm not 100% sure. Full A record failover is a paid feature which I don't pay for, but it seems like adding 2 A records does more than just round robin the DNS If from a test machine I am loading the site via the VPS and I power it down, as soon as I refresh the page it ends up pointing home with zero downtime
- onlypositive 3y ago
  I guess the proxy IP is the same. They must just run a single tunnel per hostname with multiple upstreams. Nice find ;)

tamimio 3y ago

Good read, I did before similar setup although the CF was pointing to a load balancer instead. Also, why would you point it at your home if the blog is already served from in the VPS through wireguard? And lastly, why’s that complicated setup for a blog.. unless there are other details aren’t mentioned, I think it’s an overkill for a blog.

onlypositive 3y ago
I have a feeling this is temporary to do a server upgrade on the VPS which might run other stuff too. Doesn't make sense to go through all that effort to hide your IP and keep port 80 on pfsense blocked just to open it all up anyway.
monstermunch 3y ago
The main reason is so that if I'm updated the VPS or there is an outage, it still works. Its complicated going over the tunnel and out the VPS, but it lets me make the site available no matter which ISP my home is running on (Since I have 2) I also need the VPS and tunnel for other things, like Rekor Scout inbound communication

dmvdoug 3y ago

This is single-handedly the weirdest blog I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s post after post after post after post showing tens and tens of thousands of dollars equipment and… Nothing else. It’s like hardware porn. You get no sense of who this person is and in fact he begins to sound like an advertisement. There are no furnishings in the house that you can see. The backyard sometimes has trees and sometimes doesn’t. I literally don’t think this person is real.

70rd 3y ago
Huh? I quickly scrolled through and he does mention a move which could explain the tree change. This is a pretty generic homelab, there's communities built around the hobby on reddit or lemmy. It's 10k+ of equipement at retail but people in IT often get inside deals on old equipment that's being upgraded.
- dmvdoug 3y ago
  Right, it took me reading four or five entries before I started to notice that it was really not normal. And every single post is about an expensive new hardware purchase. Not just computers. Two motorcycles. A generator. Another generator. Solar panels (with accompanying drone footage of the overhead view). And then each post he hopefully points to some Houston-area business where you, too, can get your Hardware on. It looks like guerrilla marketing aimed at nerds and tinkerers to me.
  - monstermunch 3y ago
    >And then each post he hopefully points to some Houston-area business where you, too, can get your Hardware on. Uhh, where? No I don't... Man I just like cool things :(
- monstermunch 3y ago
  Yep pretty much, I got it all used and over the span of 10+ years. Selling old stuff to fund new stuff, and a fair amount of NFR stuff from vendors
3y ago