My server, and with it my blog, a client site, and other web properties, was down for four days. I put in a support ticket and didn’t get a response until the fourth day. I’ve been with Dreamhost since 2009, and using DreamCompute since 2017, but I don’t think the product gets nearly the focus that their shared / managed stuff does. I use Digital Ocean at work, and it has been a much more polished and solid product for unmanaged VPS. That is where my site is now hosted.
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I’ve been going to Summit Metro Parks events lately on the weekends and enjoying them. But today I attempted to go to my first weekday event, on gardening, but was turned away due to too many people.
Continue reading post "#3987"Due to some compromised Github code signing certificates, I had to downgrade my installed Atom editor to version 1.60.
Continue reading post "#3949"Vagrant network IP change
Apparently, an update to VirtualBox after version 6.1.26 limited the IP’s usable for network adapters on Mac / Linux hosts. They must now be in the 192.68.56.0/21 range, which is pretty limited and much less easy to remember or type than the 10.*.*.* that I had been using. I had to change my projects to all be in this range and spread out the IPs to avoid collisions between the various projects when I updated VirtualBox a while back.
My car exhaust was rattling and making noise for quite some time. I finally fixed it, and it sounds much quieter, and even feels better.
Continue reading post "#3880"Annoying bot and Cloudflare free rate limiting
Some German bot(s) seemed to take interest in one of Cogneato’s sites, Rockin Houston. The aging site is fairly inefficient with a lot of data, and the bot was causing high load on our DB server. I have implemented a PHP blocker for certain IPs, but I wanted something more broadly applicable. I made a rate limiting rule on Cloudflare that should block this type of behavior and prevent it from even hitting our server once the rule triggers.
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I was reminded that one shouldn’t proxy non-web servers through Cloudflare (at least on their free plan).
Continue reading post "#3763"I got bit by another tick, this one in my hair. I scratched my head and felt it, then scratched it off and grabbed it. I guess it’s time for my summer haircut.
Continue reading post "#3749"Porkbun DNS was back up by the next morning after being down at least 4 hours on April 24th. The only word I got from Porkbun about the incident was from a ticket I sent them, in which they said they had a DDoS attack on their DNS servers.
Continue reading post "#3734"I got bit by a tick again. Seems to be an annual occurrence now after not having any for most of my life.
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