Quiet Monday around here. Just hanging in the office getting some work done.

@dave247 said in RAID 5 vs RAID 6: Which One Is Actually Safe in 2025?:

All my vendors recommend to avoid RAID all together, so we don't use it on the servers where I work.

Even I rarely use it. With good backups, rapid rebuilds, and highly reliable NVMe, RAID has become a very special use case.

@DustinB3403 That a whole version back. No current release that I'm aware of.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I had a fun night last night adding storage to a server. When I went to move VM storage location, found a checkpoint (Hyper-V, ugh) from 2018.... Took a long while to coalesce.

This morning everything had finally coalesced and moved to the new storage array. Only took ~10 hours.

You're using Hyper-V? How's that been going and what management tools are you using?

I had some lunatic INSTALL it in the last two months! W.T.F.

Was it installed properly, IE with the Hyper-V iso and not via a Windows Server Role installation?

Does that still exist?

My eldest is in a Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat regional competition this weekend!

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I had a fun night last night adding storage to a server. When I went to move VM storage location, found a checkpoint (Hyper-V, ugh) from 2018.... Took a long while to coalesce.

This morning everything had finally coalesced and moved to the new storage array. Only took ~10 hours.

You're using Hyper-V? How's that been going and what management tools are you using?

I had some lunatic INSTALL it in the last two months! W.T.F.

Some assumptions here. First, only configured for port 80, make sure you address TLS somehow (another proxy in front of this or add config here.)

You have a single folder /var/www/myapp in which you have myfrontend containing your ReactJS application and myapi that contains your Laravel application.

Tested with Nginx on Linux.

Laravel + ReactJS is a super common combination and getting it working right under an Nginx front end can be confusing. Here is a quick config to copy!

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name app.myserver.com;

    # ---- React SPA ----
    location / {
    	root /var/www/myapp/myfrontend/dist;
    	index index.html;
        try_files $uri /index.html;
    }

    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

    # ---- Map /api/* to Laravel public ----
    location ^~ /api/ {
        root /var/www/myapp/myapi/public/;
	index index.php;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    # ---- PHP under /api/* (MUST use fastcgi.conf, not the snippet) ----
    #location ~ ^/api/.+\.php$ {
    location ~ \.php$ {
        root /var/www/myapp/myapi/public/;

        # Split PATH_INFO (rarely needed by Laravel, but safe)
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^/api/(.+\.php)(/.*)$;

        include fastcgi.conf;                # <-- NOT snippets/fastcgi-php.conf
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.4-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;

	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }

    # Block dotfiles anywhere (SPA + API)
    location ~ /\. { deny all; }
}

We've been playing the Duck Detective series.

We've been playing the Duck Detective series.

@travisdh1 said in OVH Cloud, anyone use their VPS?:

@scottalanmiller said in OVH Cloud, anyone use their VPS?:

We use Vultr and are very happy. We've moved away from TacticalRMM to FoxRMM, our in house product (aka SodiumSuite.)

Vultr is one I've used in the past, but the pricing is on-par with Linode.

One major difference now that Linode has been bought by Akamai is the storage IOPS. I've run a couple tests, and they are using some sort of SAN instead of VSAN now. IOPS always max out at what you'd expect from a 200Gb network connection.

I might have to try out OVH Cloud. The price for 4vcorse and 8GB RAM starts at ~$5.00/month instead of the $25.00/month I'm currently paying at Linode.

Vultr is using NVMe locally for nodes as it should be. Blazing fast.

We use Vultr and are very happy. We've moved away from TacticalRMM to FoxRMM, our in house product (aka SodiumSuite.)

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@gjacobse said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1
Ah- the good old days of DEC,.. I had once thought about looking to pick up a DEC PDP 11/23 setup..

DEC OpenVMS is the not so fond memories from my first IT job. Had to have something to oppose the good memories of SGI IRIX.

I checked the current status of VMS and according to the company...

"OpenVMS V9.2-3 is available and running on hundreds of servers worldwide"

Hundreds, OMG

That's kind of crazy that any remain today!

Yeah, in some ways. It even has a web management interface now. I kinda want a copy.

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@gjacobse said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1
Ah- the good old days of DEC,.. I had once thought about looking to pick up a DEC PDP 11/23 setup..

DEC OpenVMS is the not so fond memories from my first IT job. Had to have something to oppose the good memories of SGI IRIX.

I checked the current status of VMS and according to the company...

"OpenVMS V9.2-3 is available and running on hundreds of servers worldwide"

Hundreds, OMG

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@gjacobse said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1
Ah- the good old days of DEC,.. I had once thought about looking to pick up a DEC PDP 11/23 setup..

DEC OpenVMS is the not so fond memories from my first IT job. Had to have something to oppose the good memories of SGI IRIX.

I was lucky to start IT on SunOS. Only worked on OpenVMS as an end user a little later.

@gjacobse How can using the easiest OS be too much for anyone, let alone HAM radio people? Seems like the perfect fit. That's the exact crowd that I'd expect to have been on Xenix in the mid 1990s and moved to Linux or BSD in the late 1990s. What software is on Windows and not on Linux? I'm looking on wikipedia for HAM software and it seems like it's all Linux these days.

@travisdh1 said in What Are Virtualized Applications?:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are Virtualized Applications?:

Article is totally false. That's NOT a virtualized application, that's a standard remote app as we've been using in the industry for over 30 years. When I started in IT ini 1994 this was an established, well known part of how the X Window system worked, in UNIX... ALL applications are like this!

I remember running full fledged engineering apps remotely in the 90s on IRIX and OpenVMS machines.

Have I posted about Kasm Workspaces here yet? Makes it really easy to provide remote apps like a Xen remoteapp environment, just easier, quicker, and open source.

Right? THis is SO normal. Microsoft was pushing these hard in 2003 with the Terminal Server at the time, too.

Secret of Monkey Island, Special Edition

Having a video game evening with my daughter.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse I just made a video today about why we use desktops as servers now!

Well first off I get this message:

Uhm.. okay.

Desktops as servers; in some cases - they are useful. Sadly the issue I am running into is that the twelve year old computer has more cores than anything I have available to me in the office,.. I am running an old Dell with 8-cores, and everything I have only has 4-cores.

Were I running several rPi VMs that might be fine, but I am running full Windows or Linux for testing and Ham Radio. It's working but a little strained and I can't do much more without maxing the system resources out.

Oh well.. will find something some time..

What Ham radio tasks is using so many resources?