Or something like that.
Brought my personal cloud from Finland back to Canada, as I want to support companies that do business in Canada. OVH was an easy choice. A KS-LE-2 with 128GB of RAM and a pair of 450GB NVMe SSDs running PVE is the base for it all. It’s affordable, and it’s local.
A jumphost was first, as I’m not a fan of leaving ssh ports open on production servers. Next was a DNS resolver. Setting up and migrating a mailserver took an hour or so. I’m experimenting with RainLoop webmail, and liking it well enough so far as a database-free solution. A static webserver (running bare nginx, mostly for moving files around) was next, along with a happy little bot bomb. I hope the bot makers think to guard against buffer overflows and OOMs. Poor little cretins. A quick database server, then the webserver running this blog. Other stuff will move here soon.
Not bad for a couple of evenings’ work. I was able to shut down all but one of my VMs at Hetzner, and that one can go down once a couple of WordPress sites move over.
That being said, I’m freaking done with WP as a blog platform. It’s just isn’t any more, and the themes are actively hostile to it now. I don’t want a splash page, privacy policy, “about me”, contact form, appointment scheduler, and a dozen social media links. I just want to write my stuff and not worry about it.
I snagged a trial to CrowdSec Enterprise, but I’m not keeping it. I think I’ll use this as a baseline, using my own approaches, to see how things compare with CS at work.