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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Another thought on Fargo…
It’s a bit odd/disconcerting to see that the postings in Fargo _(the outliner)_ are in oldest-to-newest order (top-to-bottom), while the home page shows newest on top. This is as it should be – there’s just a need to make that mental conversion.
Ahah. Just create the new item in Fargo above the older ones and it all comes out OK.
Back to IPv6…
I purchased this VPS from HostFolks for testing IPv6. The VPS came with a handful of IPv6 addresses in addition to the single IPv4 address they normally provide. (Be sure you ask for a server in Germany, or verify that the VPS does have IPv6 capability – not all their sites do.)
IPv6 really “just works out of the box”, unless you need to do something tricky on your system. The web server, ssh connection, etc. all acted as expected. I did have to add special configuration (udp6) for the SNMP agent, but that’s a pretty specialized configuration.
Update – August 2019: Alas, hostfolks.com seems not to be in business, but virtually all VPS providers can now handle IPv6. (In fact, run away if they don’t offer IPv6.) I’m hosting this site on Ramnode.com now, and use it for all my VPS systems…
But it’s easy to update this blog
I’m using Fargo (http://fargo.io) to:
- a) create the postings in a great outliner
- b) push them to the WordPress blog
Building a small server
This is a VPS with only 128Mbyte RAM and a 500 MHz processor (!) It’s tricky to configure it.
I may get around to documenting how I installed Ubuntu 10.04 (32-bit, to save RAM), installed the WordPress, then tweaked the system to remove as much cruft as possible. I also minimized the number of Apache processes, since I never expect more than a couple people to use the blog at the same time.
Yeah. And I also installed webmin to make it easier to administer.
Of course, the real reason I set up this server was so that I could play with IPv6. The name of the server is, after all, ipv6-richb.com. I’ll probably write about that later.