[Dxspider-support] G6NHU-2 has moved!

Wed Apr 16 16:27:25 BST 2025

Hi.

I have been using Hetzner for more than 2 years for other things, and just added another VPS 
with them a couple of months ago for my spider node, since my old VPS provider was going to 
shut down.

I can only say that the VPS there are good, and for the same price one gets
2 vcpu, 4 GB RAM, 40GB SSD, 20 TB Data.

The only "negative" thing is that the proccess to become a customer is a bit cumbersome. 
You have to submit passport or other documents, that prooves that you are the one you say 
you are. They do that to try to avoid bad stuff being run on their VPS servers.

But other than that I think they are very stable.

I also have a VPS at DigitalOcean and it also runs well. Been up for 3 years or so, without any 
downtime worth mentioning. But their prices are a bit higher than Hetzner.

Vy 73 de René / OZ1LQH

On 16 Apr 2025 at 14:20, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-sup wrote:

> 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 5:29AM, 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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