Just an FYI - Some site maintenance

[Dan]

Hi all,

Gearing up for the season, I am running some site maintenance at the moment, over the next few days there may be some quirks to the site, including the theme changing to a messy one for a while whilst I build out the newer version of the theme and system.

I am finialising the setup of this years tipping competition as well and will have that open for registrations by the weekend.

Please bear with me whilst I complete all the work between managing both kids and a busy workload

Hopefully the iOS app is ready soon for you all too.

Dan

 

[davohan123]

Dan you are legend
Take all the time you need no one will complain!!

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Not good enough Dan, we need this to be 110% 24/7

Crap service really

Lol

@Dan

 

[Clint]

love ya work Dan

 

[Dan]

For the geeks here thought I would show you our current backup server, this lives in my house, it logs in remotely to the Silvertails server and takes a database and file backup every day. Incremental backups every other day.

It's just a raspberry pi and is currently living on top of the outlet upstairs in my room, until I find a better location that won't see it unplugged by the cleaner again grrrrr.


Once the backup is taken a secondary pi gets a backup inside my network and once a month those backups go to another storage location based in the US.

This way we should never lose much data if we are hacked again.

The secondary pi is also a staging server for Silvertails but is sllllloooowww.

Anyway geek stuff

@globaleagle this is your sort of stuff

 

[globaleagle]

For the geeks here thought I would show you our current backup server, this lives in my house, it logs in remotely to the Silvertails server and takes a database and file backup every day. Incremental backups every other day.

It's just a raspberry pi and is currently living on top of the outlet upstairs in my room, until I find a better location that won't see it unplugged by the cleaner again grrrrr.


Once the backup is taken a secondary pi gets a backup inside my network and once a month those backups go to another storage location based in the US.

This way we should never lose much data if we are hacked again.

The secondary pi is also a staging server for Silvertails but is sllllloooowww.

Anyway geek stuff

@globaleagle this is your sort of stuff

Mmmmmm.....pie!

 

[Ryan]

Mmmmmm.....pie!

Of the hair kind?

 

[Dan]

Mmmmmm.....pie!

Raspberry pi

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

I love it when you talk dirty @Dan

Not a clue what you are talking about but sounds very impressive!!

 

[Dan]

I love it when you talk dirty @Dan

Not a clue what you are talking about but sounds very impressive!!

I like how Silvertails fits in the palm of my hand when backed up. If I am ever back in oz and on the NBN Silvertails will be hosted of a cluster of those little machines

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

I like how Silvertails fits in the palm of my hand when backed up. If I am ever back in oz and on the NBN Silvertails will be hosted of a cluster of those little machines

Amazing technology, just to think I saw the Qantas computer system in about 1980, it was about the size of a basketball court !!

 

[Dan]

Amazing technology, just to think I saw the Qantas computer system in about 1980, it was about the size of a basketball court !!

Yup these are pi model b's I am going to get some pi twos as well which are more powerful than the first computers I owned!

They make great little media centeres too

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Yup these are pi model b's I am going to get some pi twos as well which are more powerful than the first computers I owned!

They make great little media centeres too

My first ever computer, bought in 1982, which ran the accounting side of the business had an amazing, unbelievable 10Mb hard drive.

AND, cost about $10k ( which is about $25k in today's money).

 

[WAMF]

Your device reminded me of this, Dan.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-the-cubox-i-israels-45-pc-marvel/

 

[Frank]

Raspberry pi

Awesome little device. Until I got a new QNAP system I used to use one as a media centre.

I've since given it to my nephew as an introduction to computing. Budding little programmer there.