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ab

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From: France

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

pvn0

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2018-02-12

Posts: 219

Re: Our Server just died yesterday evening

my home (we have a symmetrical 8Gb/s fiber link)

Very jealous of those speeds, what kind of fiber are you on, XGS-PON?

Last edited by pvn0 (2025-11-11 08:19:46)

ab

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From: France

Registered: 2010-06-21

Posts: 15,270

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Re: Our Server just died yesterday evening

This is
https://www.iliad.fr/en/actualites/arti … te-like-it
It is using 10G-EPON as far as I remember.

We are lucky about Internet connection in France.

pvn0

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2018-02-12

Posts: 219

Re: Our Server just died yesterday evening

Awesome, btw if you are new to containers and find firewall management PITA (creating bridges etc...) you can just assign a macvlan interface to a container, this way you give it basically a virtual NIC so it becomes a lot more like managing a seperate computer and will give you more performance in comparison to bridging for example. The downside is that you then manage firewall from inside container which requires giving container CAP_NET_ADMIN capability. There is a way to manage it from the host via early netdev ingress and egress tables but it's not exactly beginner friendly. I haven't used proxmox in something like 8 years but I'm positive this is all possible via web ui interface. Personally I moved to using native systemd containerization (systemd-nspawn) as I wanted to really deepdive into it and have been using it for years for everything, even on personal pc I basically run every program in isolation via containers.