[theforum] Fwd: [Sysadmin] Fwd: Here’s your DigitalOcean credit for team: evolt!

William Anderson neuro at well.com
Wed Mar 22 00:24:09 UTC 2017


Hey, I forgot to cc theforum too!  Jinx!

-n

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: William Anderson <neuro at well.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Sysadmin] Fwd: Here’s your DigitalOcean credit for team: evolt!
To: sysadmin at lists.evolt.org


On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:46 PM, David Kaufman <david at gigawatt.com> wrote:
> [ Oops forgot to cc: theForum as promised... ]

hehe

> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 9:50 PM,
> William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
>>
>> we could bump up the spec of
>> cerf. I bumped him from 512MB RAM to 1GB but he still goes into swap
>> (~140MB so far, with 128MB used as cache and 76 MB free).  Going from
>> 1GB / 1 core / 2TB transfer to 2GB / 2 core / 3TB transfer (not that
>> we're in danger of eating our transfer) would a) keep us out of swap
>> usage, b) give us an extra core, and c) get the most out of our
>> generous service credit.
>>
>> Whatcha think folks?
>
> Fine by me!  Like I said, we can easily afford more horsey-power!

Done ;)  Ooooooooh!

neuro at cerf:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2048416     331148    1717268        424      21476      71532
-/+ buffers/cache:     238140    1810276
Swap:      8388588          0    8388588

> I still feel weird running a dedicated virtual server just for DNS,
> even a $5/month one!  Why not just run bind on the mail server?

We do run bind on cerf, which gives us a secondary  DNS server in case
postel goes off the air.  You make changes on postel, sudo service
bind9 reload, and cerf picks up the changes automagically.

> I enjoy twiddling with my own DNS settings as much as the next nerd,
> but (as I may have ranted previously) I also must admit that I hate
> bind :-) Why not run TinyDNS on the mail server?

Because bind is straightforward, an industry standard, pretty much
bulletproof, and easy to admin.

> Or (as i also whined recently) why not just use the free web-based DNS
> services offered by just about every registrar and hosting provider
> nowadays?  Even DO has one!

But it's not as portable as just copying a zone file to another server.

> But it's just cuz I hate bind **SO**, so very much -- if it were
> running TinyDNS, I'd be all over it, probably building that node.js

That's not a good reason ;)  Also, anything djb related makes my skin
crawl.  OK, maybe yours is a reasonable reason too!

> web interface I've been meaning to build for just about forever now,
> to replace the free EveryDNS service (that evolt used to use) for
> anyone who wants one... guess that might require a bit more than 512MB
> of RAM though, ya think?

Just a tad ;)

-n


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