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Registered: 2010-06-21

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Our Server just died yesterday evening

As you may have noticed, our server was not available since yesterday evening until this Saturday afternoon (Paris time).

In fact, our Dedibox hardware, which was running fine for years, just break down, and was not able to reboot.
The Dedibox/ScaleWay/Only service answered to my ticket that... the server just died... and they were not able to reboot either.
What I did not know is that they can't access the hardware, because there are other servers in the same chassis, so they can't stop it to fix it.
So pretty much killed dead.

After having a lot of troubles finding the sleep (I found out the issue at 11PM and I did not want to fix it in the night time), I managed to setup a new server, at least for our Synopse forum.
In fact, it is self hosted in my home (we have a symmetrical 8Gb/s fiber link) on a cheap mini-PC I had for testing.
I had troubles about putting and configuring ProxMox on it, but now it seems running just fine. What a weird - but powerful - thing is this ProxMox. And nested firewalls are a real PITA. At least I have physical access to the server, so I could stuck in a keyboard and screen when I stuck myself out of the ssh.
At least for synopse.info/forum and catho.org + ictuswin.com static files.

Now I will try to setup the blog and other WordPress websites which was on this server, especially https://cauterets.site which is our B&B, and news.ictuswin.com which is an old project of mine.
But it may be a challenge, because it worked on a very old PHP + MySQL stack, and I don't have recent SQL dumps, just raw binary files...
At least we have access to the static content of most of our old server...

I will setup a daily backup of the container, just to be sure.

I made a blog entry about this:
https://blog.synopse.info/?post/2025/09 … ast-Friday