Category: Computer Efforts

  • Proxmox Migration and Upgrade

    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…

  • WordPress Successful Migration

    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…

  • Mastodon removal

    Mastodon removal

    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…

  • Mastodon updates

    Mastodon updates

    Not that it will affect many, but my Halfling13 node for Mastodon is offline again. I attempted the recent update, and as seems to be common, it borked the installation. Working on fixing it, but at least this time I created a full and solid backup of critical files. In the meantime, the background OS…

  • Revised webserver

    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…

  • Viewport #5, June 1 2024

    Viewport #5, June 1 2024

    Latest news and happening with our weekly video blog, the Viewport (part of our efforts to establish TableTopTube), is now posted and available. Check in with our group weekly, on recent activities, behind the scenes information, and upcoming plans. This week, we had our planned group bowling trip, and posted battle report 081 for Legion.…

  • Discord Participation

    Discord Participation

    While reviewing the recent Patreon adjustments, I realized that we probably have been overly restrictive on our Discord server. This is intended as an open forum for gaming related discussions, and visibility at the schedules and behind the scenes activities. There have always been a few links available for open invitations, but none really openly…

  • Raspberry Pi and Docker

    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,…