[Dxspider-support] G6NHU-2 has moved!

Wed Apr 16 14:20:37 BST 2025

I'm getting good results on https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/ and for less 
money than DO.

Dirk G1TLH

On 16/04/2025 12:31, Lists via Dxspider-support wrote:
> If anyone would like a free VM, myself and a few ham friends are 
> setting up a charity to help hams, we’re already offering free VMs for 
> ham related projects - drop me an email if you're interested.
>
> 73,
> Chris - G1FEF
>
>
>
>> On 16 Apr 2025, at 11:10, Terry Hunt via Dxspider-support 
>> <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Keith,
>> As you know because we were partners I recently did something similar 
>> with K4HNT-2.  I was running it at home on an old laptop using Debian 
>> 12.  I live out away from the city so no fiber solution was available 
>> for me, my internet was standard cable connection and probably the 
>> worst thing was I have no power
>> I found a coupon for ColoCrossing and was able to get a 1gig 1 
>> processor 25GB disk and 2 TB bandwidth virtual host running Debian 12 
>> for $10 a year.  So far it has been very stable, there was an outage 
>> day before yesterday for about an hour but we had a regional internet 
>> disruption which took us down at work as well.
>>
>> I followed many of the same steps you did and also saw only a few 
>> minutes of downtime during the cut over.  I took the opportunity to 
>> also move to passwords with  my node partners and implemented MRTG 
>> sso my statistics are published at 
>> https://qsl.net/k/k4hnt/DXSpider/Stats/stats.html.  I also took some 
>> time to clean up cron and implement a few if Kin’s scripts.
>>
>> I recently learned of wireguard and tail snail and am in the process 
>> of implementing that into all my devices.  Once complete, I will be 
>> able to remove the exposure of SSH to the internet and just use it 
>> via the VPN tunnel.
>>
>> Anyone interested in ColoCrossing specials, they can be found at 
>> https://cloud.colocrossing.com/index.php?rp=/store/specials
>>
>> *Congrats on the successful cutover!*
>>
>> Terry, K4HNT
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 16, 2025, at 5:29 AM, Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support 
>>> <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Warning - Long post ahead!
>>>
>>> In the lead up to doing this, I've reduced my number of node 
>>> partners by over 50%. I've never said no to a partner request and 
>>> that meant I just had far too many partners.
>>>
>>> After a couple of weeks of trying different things and working out 
>>> what's the best solution for me, on Monday evening I moved my node 
>>> from a Raspberry Pi5 at home to a Digital Ocean Droplet.
>>>
>>> I should start by saying that there's nothing wrong with a cluster 
>>> node running on a Pi5, it works really well, especially when using 
>>> an external SSD instead of an SD card. Before the Pi5 was released, 
>>> mine ran on a Pi4 and that was good as well.
>>>
>>> I first picked the lowest spec Digital Ocean Droplet that gave me 
>>> 1Gb memory at $7 but after some testing, I discovered that it bogged 
>>> down a bit doing historical sh/dx searches as I have my search 
>>> history set to one year. I tried with two cores and that was 
>>> significantly better. I was given a referral link which gave me $200 
>>> credit that lasts for two months so I was able to try lots of 
>>> different configurations at zero cost. If you want to have a play, 
>>> please use my referral link which will get you the same $200 credit: 
>>> https://m.do.co/c/d94f86a3201c
>>>
>>> At the weekend I changed the TTL on my my main access url to 60 
>>> seconds so that when I came to do the final migration, it would be 
>>> with minimal downtime for my users.
>>>
>>> The actual process was really straightforward. I picked Ubuntu 24.04 
>>> LTS as the operating system for the droplet and used SV4FRI's 
>>> install script to install dxspider, I tested that for a couple of 
>>> days and then cloned my existing /spider directory from the Pi to 
>>> the droplet, changed the callsign to -5 and again, ran that for a 
>>> few days.
>>>
>>> I was happy with that so on Monday evening, this was my process:
>>>
>>> I stopped the spider service and renamed the /spider directory on 
>>> the Droplet that I'd been testing.
>>>
>>> I stopped the spider service on my Pi5 and started a new copy of the 
>>> /spider directory over to the Droplet.
>>>
>>> While this was copying, I updated the A record on dxspider.co.uk 
>>> <http://dxspider.co.uk/> and for any historic users, I updated the A 
>>> record on g6nhu.changeip.net <http://g6nhu.changeip.net/> and 
>>> g6nhu.getmyip.com <http://g6nhu.getmyip.com/> as well.
>>>
>>> With the copy complete, I checked all the permissions on the Droplet 
>>> /spider directory, enabled and started the spider service and 
>>> rebooted the Droplet.
>>>
>>> Within a couple of seconds, I had almost all my users back on again 
>>> and then I remembered something. When I originally set up my node, 
>>> it was using port 7373. When I built my first spider,  I port 
>>> forwarded 7300 and 7373 in my router to 7300 on the node so I 
>>> quickly added port 7373 in the Droplet firewall,  added another 
>>> listener in /spider/local/Listeners.pm and restarted the node.
>>>
>>> And that was it. Total downtime was about five minutes and because 
>>> I'd set TTL nice and low, everyone was straight back in.
>>>
>>> The VPS I finally went with was a Basic Droplet with Premium AMD 
>>> CPU, 2 GiB RAM and 2 vCPUs. It comes with 60 GiB storage and a total 
>>> transfer bandwidth of 3 TB per month. This is far more storage and 
>>> transfer I'll ever need but it's what came with the two cores I 
>>> wanted. You can see from the attached screenshot how much bandwidth 
>>> it's actually using, this was yesterday evening so it'll be a bit 
>>> higher at weekends but still nowhere near the limit. The cost for 
>>> this Droplet is $21/month plus tax so it works out as under 
>>> £20/month. As I said above, if anyone wants to try this, please use 
>>> my link for $200 credit: https://m.do.co/c/d94f86a3201c
>>>
>>> My home internet is fibre to the premises (FTTP) running at 900 Mbps 
>>> down and 110 Mbps up so the node barely used any traffic but the 
>>> number of users I had clearly added some congestion to my network as 
>>> I've noticed since moving it that the internet feels a lot faster. 
>>> Previously, when going to web pages, there would be a couple of 
>>> seconds delay between hitting enter and the page loading, as though 
>>> it was slow doing a DNS lookup. That delay has now gone and 
>>> everything is a lot snappier than it was before.
>>>
>>> This post is just for info really, to describe the process I went 
>>> through and to give information to anyone who might be considering 
>>> something similar.
>>>
>>> 73 Keith.
>>>
>>>
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