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1. me (a) edaha.org (me (a) edaha.org)

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!
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2. Luke Emmet (luke (a) marmaladefoo.com)

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

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3. Alex // nytpu (alex (a) nytpu.com)

> 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

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4. me (a) edaha.org (me (a) edaha.org)

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! :)

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5. me (a) edaha.org (me (a) edaha.org)

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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