Services
This is an update to my services article I posted a few months ago.
VPS Infrastructure
I have a bigger infrastructure nowadays, it is hosted on mercurycloud which is a small French cloud provider.
I have multiple servers:
- Ambassador (8vCPU, 16GB of RAM), named after the Ambassador-class starships in Star Trek (all my hostnames are Star Trek starship classes).
- Nova (2vCPU, 4GB of RAM), you guessed it named after the Nova-class starships.
- Yellowstone (1vCPU, 2GB of RAM), which is backup server, named after the Yellowstone-class of runabouts in Star Trek.
Ambassador and Nova are hosted in Tours, France. While Yellowstone which is the backup server is hosted in Rennes, France. I have a private tunnel between the two datacentres, to connect all of these together (for node exporter, nextcloud exporter, and the backups).
I run on Ambassador:
- A Git Forge as well as a runner
- A conduwuit (matrix server) instance (faefox.dev)
- An instance of Cinny (matrix client)
- A NextCloud Instance (you can request an account by email)
- A service status page
On Nova there are:
- A Grafana, which is used to quickly see the health of my servers
- The SharedAgenda API.
CloudFare Page
I use CloudFare Page to run a few static websites.
Migadu
I use Migadu as my email provider. I use the micro yearly plan, for only $20 USD a year I have everything I need. I have emails under the following domains.
- charlotte-thomas.me
- me
- gc
- faefox.dev
- me
NAS
I have a NAS (2TB on RAID1) running on my local network. Its name is Olympic (because it is old, big, and vulnerable)
I have twice daily backups using restic on it.
Hostnames
- My personal laptop is Defiant (because it’s tough, and little)
- My work laptop is Galaxy (because it’s big)
- My personal phone is Danube (because it’s small)
- My NAS is Olympic
- VPSes are:
- Ambassador
- Nova
- Yellowstone
Plans for the future
In the future, when I have my own home, with my own Network (because I am moving to a place where I don’t control it for the moment). My plan is to run a Server/NAS where I can store my data and expose it to the web to run my applications and everything I need
In the plans there is:
- Everything I run on my VPSes (or maybe I’ll keep the VPS, still unknown.)
- A NAS (maybe with TrueNAS?)
- A Plex/Jellyfish Server
- An OpenStack instance (to do ansible and terraform on) (maybe not in hindsight)
- And everything that strike my fancy
The budget will be around €2,000 to build it, and the minimum spec I want are:
- CPU: 8C/16T, reasonably recent
- GPU: An Intel ARC for transcoding
- RAM: 64GB
- Storage:
- 8TB in RAID5 with HDD
- 512GB in RAID1 on NVMe
- PSU:
- Gold Rated Unit
- An UPS
- Silent Fans.
- LAN: 2.5 Gbit/s
I don’t know if I want to run it on a rack or not. I think not.
Everything is very subject to changes. It’s the early version of what I’m thinking. I may scrap it and run it from an old motherboard because I would have updated my Framework. Maybe. So it can change it’s just what I’m feeling at the moment.
It won’t exists for another year and a half (or more); but it will probably be under some subdomains of charlotte-thomas.me and/or faefox.dev. Probably more faefox.dev as we can all agree, it is the funnier one.