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2023-08-18T23:00:48+01:00
Jon Hayward
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Webtopia - The worst host Ive ever dealt with
2023-08-15T02:49:09+01:00
2023-08-18T00:06:59+01:00
https://www.fattylewis.com/posts/webtopia-the-worst-host-ive-dealt-with/
Jon Hayward
Ive recently had the unfortunate experience of working with this host after renting a dedicated server. This is how it went for me…
The backstory
This server was my Plex automation server. It ran Plex, Traefik, and the *arrs. This server was my Plex server which stored all its media on Gdrive…Thats now a whole other story.
I had a pretty good automated setup that had worked for years on an OV...
Automating Jekyll deployments with Circle-CI
2023-01-18T00:33:09+00:00
2023-01-19T00:53:22+00:00
https://www.fattylewis.com/posts/automating-jekyll-deployments-with-circleci/
Jon Hayward
This will hopefully be quite a quick run through on how i deploy this website to my VPS using 3 services:
Visual Studio Code Server
Github
Circle-CI
Visual Studio Code Server
This is deployed on one of the servers in my house using Docker. Its a pretty simple one, here are the excerpt from my docker-compose that brings up almost all my home services:
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version: "3.8"
volumes:
cod...
Thoughts on the Le Mans virtual 24 hour race
2023-01-17T00:33:09+00:00
2023-01-18T17:51:12+00:00
https://www.fattylewis.com/posts/thoughts-on-le-mans-virtual-2023/
Jon Hayward
I am an avid Sim racer, i enjoy both engaging in races and also watching the big events. Ive watched it for many years and have been sim racing myself for longer. I tend to stick to iRacing and ACC mainly, but dabble in most of the sims occasionally.
But thats enough about me, there needs to be some discussion around what happened technically over the previous weekend in the “Le Mans Virtual ...
Building the ultimate monitoring stack with Prometheus
2022-12-23T00:33:09+00:00
2022-12-23T00:33:09+00:00
https://www.fattylewis.com/posts/the-ultimate-monitoring-stack/
Jon Hayward
Perhaps not the “Ultimate” monitoring stack, but this should give you a fantastic (in my opinion) baseline to be well on your way to a useful monitoring stack using Prometheus, Grafana and a bunch of exporters!
Ill upload my current docker-compose up to github, though this will very much be a living file and will be iterated on. Ill update this post as and when that happens.
As a little prefa...
Using Vault to store LUKS keys – Conclusion
2021-11-29T20:19:53+00:00
2021-11-29T20:19:53+00:00
https://www.fattylewis.com/posts/using-vault-to-store-luks-keys-conclusion/
Jon Hayward
Firstly, this was a really fun experiment which has ended up with a working solution. There is still a lot of work to do on this before it should be considered anywhere near “Production Ready”. Off the top of my head, here is what i believe needs working on
SSL/TLS all the things. This is an easy low-hanging fruit.
Already Started working on this, see this post on generating Lets...