@Oksana XFS for speed AND resilience!

@Danp ugh, I need to do some project to figure out how to control the user creation. I't never good on this platfform.

Works fine, doesn't need to be in a Dell.

Rainworld Downpour

Quiet Sunday doing some coding on FoxRMM. Hopefully soon I'll head to a cafe with the kids.

@Danp TECHNICALLY, both are chimpanzees.

Literally, chimps are a category. There are three chimps...

Common Chimp
Bonobo
Human

Microsoft databases and "mission critical" can never be used together. Either your workload is important, or you can run it on this crap. But by deploying SQL Server, you are defining your workload as "not worth thinking about." Because clearly, it wasn't thought about.

@DustinB3403 yeah, only internal to AWS

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.)