Homelab

As part of this weekend’s regular service update, I also came across Mosquitto’s new 2.1.2 release. This is my tale… I’m using Mosquitto as the MQTT broker for my IoT thermostats and smart plugs. If you’re interested, you can find more details on my setup in this and this post. The changelog of the new release contained a few interesting points: The acl_file option is deprecated in favour of the acl-file plugin, which is the same code but moved into a plugin. The acl_file option will be removed in 3.0. The password_file option is deprecated in favour of the password-file plugin, which is the same code but moved into a plugin. The password_file option will be removed in 3.0. I’m using both of these options, so because I was doing the update on a lazy Sunday morning instead of Friday evening after work, I decided to be a good sysadmin and replace the acl_file and password_file options now, instead of waiting for the update where they’re ultimately getting removed. ...

Please allow me to ramble a bit about a Fediverse post I saw around this time last year, and a few blog posts discussing self-hosting as a solution to the dominance of big tech. It all started with this post scrolling through my timeline last year. Are there any guides on self hosting for complete beginners out there? Especially those that have choice paralysis and care about privacy. Ones that walk you through buying a domain name, setting the DNS or whatever it’s called for it, setting up a hosting server (and which to choose), what OS to use on it etc? Or are you just expected to know all this? ...

Wherein I figure out why my Ceph S3 is so slow and think about potential hardware upgrades. As part of my goaccess post, I had to copy around almost 60 GB of logs, from my laptop to my desktop. I decided to do that via my Ceph S3. And it was very, very slow. There were 185 files to copy, with a total size just shy of 60 GiB. The majority of that size comes from two Traefik log files, both around 30 GiB in size. I used Rclone to sync the files to an empty directory on my desktop with this command: ...

Wherein I end up replacing my Brief setup for RSS with FreshRSS. Over the holidays, I visited my family and only had my laptop with me. While I have most things properly synced, my RSS feed subscriptions are not. Up to now, I’ve been using the Brief Firefox extension. It looks like this: Example of the Brief UI ...

Wherein I talk about a small tool for access log analysis on the terminal. I recently re-discovered a small tool I already came across a while ago, but never wrote a post about: Goaccess. It’s a command line tool which can be used to do quick analysis of web server access logs. It understands some of the standard formats from e.g. Apache out of the box, but also provides facilities to parse other log formats. In this post, I will use it to parse 30 GB worth of logs from my public-facing Traefik instance and see what I can get out of it. ...