VPS troubles and the weekend
This weekend I went to the cottage with P on Friday. I hoped I would have a nice weekend reading in front of the wood stove, but I had also planned to spend at least a few hours trying to configure Maddy as the new mail server for hack.org et al.
Then the web server I moved to the new VPS died. Again. I connected to the VNC console and, like before, the Linux kernel couldn't find its root disk. A simple:
# mount /dev/vda2 /sysroot; exit
in the emergency shell solved things, but, damn, do I need to do this every time!?
Yes, I realize that I chose to use the VPS provider's Alpine Linux image. I also realize that it was a kind of a warning that they replied that they don't know anything about Alpine when I was first opened a support ticket about this. Not sure why they even say they support Alpine. My guess is that Debian or something would have been a better choice, but I like Alpine and I was glad that they offered it.
Then, after reboot, the VPS simply lost its IPv6 address. Instead of getting a sensible 2a13:7c81:132::2/64 it got no less than two addresses with a /36 prefix. WTF? And, naturally, even though there was a v6 default route, it couldn't reach anything beyond the router.
So… I looked around for other VPS services.
I thought of the German service Hetzner. Created an account. Was going to start a VPS. Then they flagged my account as suspicious. Don't know why. Didn't even access the service over VPN or Tor or anything like that. They asked for a photo of my passport and a live webcam! What!? No. No way.
Then I thought about the nice service I get at OpenBSD.amsterdam. Very happy with the simple VPS I have there for a DNS server. OK, perhaps that box can also be my web server?
I log in. Damn. I need to upgrade this thing. sysupgrade. And…
File system full. Daaaaaaamn! That was… fun.
I eventually managed to spend a few ours experimenting with Maddy and Dovecot, but most of the time I spent with things I'd rather hoped would just work.
Now I need a weekend.
Written by MC on Sweetmorn, the 58 day of Discord in the YOLD 3191 ().