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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/">https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/</a> and for less money than DO.<br>
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Dirk G1TLH<br>
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On 16/04/2025 12:31, Lists via Dxspider-support wrote:<br>
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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.
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<div>73,</div>
<div>Chris - G1FEF</div>
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<div>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</div>
<div>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.</div>
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<div>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 <a
href="https://qsl.net/k/k4hnt/DXSpider/Stats/stats.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"
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I also took some time to clean up cron and
implement a few if Kin’s scripts.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Anyone interested in ColoCrossing specials, they
can be found at <a
href="https://cloud.colocrossing.com/index.php?rp=/store/specials"
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<div><b>Congrats on the successful cutover!</b></div>
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<div>Terry, K4HNT</div>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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: <a
href="https://m.do.co/c/d94f86a3201c"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://m.do.co/c/d94f86a3201c</a><br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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I was happy with that so on Monday
evening, this was my process:<br>
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I stopped the spider service and renamed
the /spider directory on the Droplet
that I'd been testing.<br>
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I stopped the spider service on my Pi5
and started a new copy of the /spider
directory over to the Droplet.<br>
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While this was copying, I updated the A
record on <a
href="http://dxspider.co.uk/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">dxspider.co.uk</a> and
for any historic users, I updated the A
record on <a
href="http://g6nhu.changeip.net/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">g6nhu.changeip.net</a> and <a
href="http://g6nhu.getmyip.com/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">g6nhu.getmyip.com</a> as
well.<br>
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With the copy complete, I checked all
the permissions on the Droplet /spider
directory, enabled and started the
spider service and rebooted the Droplet.<br>
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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.<br>
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And that was it. Total downtime was
about five minutes and because I'd set
TTL nice and low, everyone was straight
back in.<br>
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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: <a
href="https://m.do.co/c/d94f86a3201c"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://m.do.co/c/d94f86a3201c</a><br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
73 Keith.<br>
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