Project OH.MG

Posted on 2020-11-27 on OH.MG.

This page ceased to be relevant Mer 12 jan 2022 14:07:09 CET and was moved to the archive.

Basic Information

Software

The site is a gemini site, churned out to static files on the WWW :

Server

OH.MG is comprised of four servers and three DreamObjects buckets for data storage, three of the servers are self hosted on site in Paris, France and the fourth (for now) is a DreamCompute Instance that pushes updates to the DreamObjects buckets.

Web is handled by a Virtual machine serving static HTML
Gemini is served using gmnisrv on a second virtual machine
Gopher is served using Gophernicus on a physical machine

A Changelog of sorts

In this project I am going to be centralising all the content on OH.MG centrally under three different protocols which are hosted on 4 different machines.

DreamHost

VPS with kiln
DreamObjects

Home Servers

Gopher on Francesco
Gemini on Bertrand
HTTP/S on air03
BBS on core-mec03

Current Set-up

OH.MG hosted on netcup
like.oh.mg on Gemini
No gopher

Objective

Make publishing easier
Hold more control on systems I physically own
Improve coverage to smol internet
Become zen with content
One place for everything

Expected Issues

IPv6 compatibility
Format between gophermaps and gemini
Speed relying on DreamObject (US based, servers in France)
No idea if it'll work as invisioned

Current Test Phase

Gemini from DreamObjects is a success
WWW from DreamObjects is a success on air03
Gopher on Francesco is a success, with some lag until file is cached

Field Notes from Production

2020-12-10

No stability issues, gmnisrv has rarely crashed since it's no longer proxied
Slight delay of a few ms when first loading from the DO bucket (all protocols), considering to increase cache time on servers
Starting to integrate /faq/ into gopher