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Category: Computer Efforts
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Proxmox Migration and Upgrade
Following my success with WordPress yesterday, I become more confident and opted to tackle upgrades within the core Proxmox environment. I have been running version 8 for a month or so for my efforts, in a mixed bag of old and new systems, but since early August, version 9 has been available. This effort started…
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WordPress Successful Migration
After many attempts, and a lot of troubleshooting, I have finally successfully migrated my WordPress site to a new self-hosting option. And this time, without losing any data, which is a step up from previous efforts. Up until now, the site has been running on an old laptop, loaded with Ubuntu. It was stable, but…
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Mastodon removal
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In a recent posting, I mentioned that my self-hosted Mastodon site was offline again, following yet another attempted (and failed) upgrade. This software has proven to be very challenging to keep stable and operational. Once it is running, it is great. But every time I have tried to update it due to patches or security…
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Revised webserver
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Another week, another server migration. This time, I did an intentional migration of the webserver. Previously, my WordPress installation was running on a virtual machine on one of my main systems. This was working fine until my recent eCommerce site addon, establishing my Quartermaster. At that point, the extra database and processing load apparently was…
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Raspberry Pi and Docker
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Over the years, I have played with and experimented with Virtual Machines in various forms, typically to run Ubuntu or Windows based systems. These were used for either game servers, web servers, file systems, or just for basic experimentation. Currently, I am running one which holds my Home Assistant instance, on an old Windows laptop,…


