September 2024 – snand.org

we’re still snanding..

new host got an NVME ssd with enough capacity to migrate immich. moved infrastructure over to it and spun it all back up. man docker makes things easy.

now, if I can just figure out my immich restore issues, DB seems fairly screwed but works just fine in “production.” at least I have a system I can mess with though.

puts snand’s server budget just slightly below $200. 60 bucks for a used dell 3050 and another 130 for a 2 tb NVME ssd. considering I spend that a month in electricity, I’m hoping this proves a more budget-worthy solution. then again it’s probably not snand, it’s probably my homebrew NAS. I’d love to move to ssd there as well but 30tb is going to break the budget a bit. snand’s old host will need a new home I guess, maybe I need a desktop again in the upcoming basement maker space.

got to see some living legends last night.

that’s 91 year old Willy Nelson.

M and I went to the Outlaw Music Festival last night with some very dear friends. Wednesday I took my freshman and his friend to the Voyage to the Blue Planet tour launch. both were epic, I will try to expand on it later but I have some stuff I need to do.

terrible picture of Bob, I was pretty close though.

holy buckets Flaming Lips were fun.

sorry for the downtime

snand experienced issues this AM. the issues were with it’s admin, forgetting that the tunnel container needs to be on the same network as the wordpress container and traffic manager. guess I will include a cloudflare compose project afterall so I don’t forget this again.

every couple years..

..I swear I read this same article:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/04/cloud_buyers_regret/

I’m an infrastructure architect. I don’t care where my infrastructure lives, I’m a requirements driven person. cloud is just someone elses computer.

flexibility, rapid deployment, wide open development landscape, etc. I get why the cloud is there but it’s a tool, like any other. no idea why I’m posting this, guess I just am tired of reading the same thing, showing it to the same people, and getting the same results.

back to school!

getting kiddos up this AM for school. E and G are up, about to take the youngest to his bus stop.

no faces, I hope this one is ok. E about to get on.

and finally A – my newest middle schooler!

snand is on the move.

in an effort to cut down power consumption, snand has moved from it’s previous overpowered host to a brand spanking old dell micro pc. used to be one of the nodes of me¹ test kubernetes cluster but I’ve got that on hold for now so using the little guys for low powered servers.

anyway, snand currently is living in the game cabinet, next to the TV. once I have a couple more services migrated, I’ll stash it away in the dusty corner of the basement where it belongs!

while I’m at it, I’m making it all reproducable through stupid simple scripts and docker compose. I’m intentionally keeping this on the stupid simple side but it’s all here.

ha! kids are watching spongebob, guess ol’ Mr. Krabs rubbed off on me.
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