New 990 and vintage computing resource (beta, not ready for prime time)

[jbdigriz]

For a long time I've wanted to have some place to share files from, collaborate on vintage computer projects, and so forth, so I've added a Nextcloud (https://nextcloud.com/) instance to https://dragonsweb.org/nextcloud. Just a sandbox for now, but a production instance is forthcoming.

 

Still configuring things and working out the kinks. It's on a smallish VPS, 100G, 2G RAM, single core. Been having OOM issues, so I've had to disable spamd and add more swap to keep kswapd from going nuts. Swap on SSD may not be the best idea, so the final production server will be on a bigger VPS with another core, that is not also a mail server.

 

For now, the test instance will suffice to play around, get more familiar with Nextcloud, and test ideas. Nextcloud is federated, so you too can host your own instance if you wish, or just register on mine  We'll be trying different integrations with other platforms as well, so I'm pretty excited about it all.

 

Testers welcome. I've set registration up to require admin approval, to slow down the spammers.

 

jbdigriz

 

Edited March 21 by jbdigriz

[Jimhearne]

The link https://dragonsweb.org/nextcloud.  has an extra . on the end, i assume it should be https://dragonsweb.org/nextcloud

 

I use Nextcloud for work, i hope it plays nicely with that.

 

Jim

 

 

 

 

Edited March 21 by Jimhearne

[jbdigriz]

3 minutes ago, Jimhearne said:

The link https://dragonsweb.org/nextcloud.  has an extra . on the end, i assume it should be https://dragonsweb.org/nextcloud

 

I use Nextcloud for work, i hope it plays nicely with that.

 

Jim

 

 

 

 

Fixed.

 

I'm just getting back into NC after some years. Federation should work fine though. May take some trust authorizations. I'll look into it and get back to you.

[jbdigriz]

Ok, don't need trusted servers for federation to work. That is only needed for exchanging user directories.  Do need for users to be able to send and receive shares with other servers.  That is enabled here. Group shares not, ATM.

 

Still feeling my way around 🙂

Edited March 21 by jbdigriz

[Gary from OPA]

I setup something similar on my desktop using owncloud, but still have to look at fully configuring with many options.

[+FarmerPotato]

Sounds interesting (I'm not familiar with NC.) Try it out? But if it's longevity we need, we oughta consider a long term hosting, like Lizard Hill (WHTECH.com) or pair.com or whichever.

[Gary from OPA]

1 hour ago, FarmerPotato said:

Sounds interesting (I'm not familiar with NC.) Try it out? But if it's longevity we need, we oughta consider a long term hosting, like Lizard Hill (WHTECH.com) or pair.com or whichever.

I also have permanent hosting as well under my ti99ers.com domain, at some point I want to expand it and mirror all content out there.

[jbdigriz]

7 hours ago, FarmerPotato said:

Sounds interesting (I'm not familiar with NC.) Try it out? But if it's longevity we need, we oughta consider a long term hosting, like Lizard Hill (WHTECH.com) or pair.com or whichever.

Single points of failure. Whether my host, whtech, or whatever. That's why I'm going with federation and investigating integrating with IPFS.

 

I do need to sound out Don on mirroring. Rsync access would be great. Would reduce the load on his server. 

 

I had a disk failure on the system I was mirroring bitsavers on a while back, but I got  a nice FreeBSD raidz2 set up the other day and will be resume that  and some other sites, pending a fiber connection locally or USPS backup.

Edited March 22 by jbdigriz