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Hey all, Announcing my personal gemini site at gemini://edaha.org. Currently running Jetforce as the server software. First post is a guide on how I set up my server using free services from Oracle's cloud offering. You can check it out here: gemini://edaha.org/oracle-ci-how-to.gmi See you in gemini space! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20210114/b6de 69da/attachment.htm>
On 14-Jan-2021 06:46, me at edaha.org wrote: > Announcing my personal gemini site at gemini://edaha.org. Currently > running Jetforce as the server software. > > First post is a guide on how I set up my server using free services > from Oracle's cloud offering. You can check it out here: > gemini://edaha.org/oracle-ci-how-to.gmi Hello there Many thanks for that - this is a great guide for anyone wanting to set up a server in the cloud, and the Oracle offering seems quite generous. I've tried it out today and I can confirm the steps are very well described and it works fine. But I found a couple of small bugs in your guide that you might want to fix: 1. Opening the VCN firewall, Guide says: "Enter "1935" in the "Destination Port Range" input box" This should be port 1965 not 1935 (typo) 2. SSH'ing into your Ubuntu instance and updating it Connecting with PuTTY - need to use PuttyGen to import private PEM and generate ppk file. I couldnt get PuTTY to directly use the PEM files. 3. Setting up iptables Guide says to use: sudo iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules.v4 I got "permission denied" with that command Instead this worked for me: sudo iptables-save -f /etc/iptables/rules.v4 Many thanks again - now I have another space to play in. - Luke
> Announcing my personal gemini site at gemini://edaha.org. Currently > running Jetforce as the server software. For what it's worth, I subscribed to your page, looking forward to more posts! > First post is a guide on how I set up my server using free services > from Oracle's cloud offering. You can check it out here: > gemini://edaha.org/oracle-ci-how-to.gmi I love reading about people (ab)using the free tiers of <insert cloud service provider> to do their hosting. Obviously a gemini server will fit easily on any free tier, but I remember having fun a few times engineering my software to pretty much max out my usage of aws' free tier so I could get the most bang for my nonexistent buck. I am surprised that oracle has the best offering though, do you think they just want to try to attract customers? I never really considered oracle to be the generous type. ~nytpu -- Alex // nytpu alex at nytpu.com GPG Key: https://www.nytpu.com/files/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint: 43A5 890C EE85 EA1F 8C88 9492 ECCD C07B 337B 8F5B https://useplaintext.email/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20210114/054b 390a/attachment.sig>
Jan 14, 2021, 14:23 by luke at marmaladefoo.com: > But I found a couple of small bugs in your guide that you might want to fix: > Much appreciated Luke! I've made all the updates you pointed out and added a changelog at the btotom. Glad to hear someone was able to make use of it! :)
Jan 14, 2021, 15:16 by alex at nytpu.com: > For what it's worth, I subscribed to your page, looking forward to more > posts! > thanks! planning to keep some sort of consistency -- aiming for a few times a week :) and eventually I'll figure out commenting, that seems like it'd be fun > I love reading about people (ab)using the free tiers of <insert cloud > service provider> to do their hosting. Obviously a gemini server will > fit easily on any free tier, but I remember having fun a few times > engineering my software to pretty much max out my usage of aws' free > tier so I could get the most bang for my nonexistent buck. > The simplicity of gemini is what sold me on doing it this way -- even these dated servers I can't imagine maxing this out. May still try to run a matrix server concurrently or just on the second VM to maximize my return on investment. > I am surprised that oracle has the best offering though, do you think > they just want to try to attract customers? I never really considered > oracle to be the generous type. > 100%, it's just a marketing ploy. They have such a low marketshare (I think they're the smallest "major" player?) that I'm sure this is absolutely just a way to draw people in. I'm sure there will be a catch down the line at some point -- after all, nothing's more expensive than a free gift. Nonetheless, two free VMs is pretty dope.
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