Author: Bill

  • Goodbye, CoreOS

    For my now-retired at-home hosting, and for my first migration to the cloud, I used CoreOS as my hosting OS. It\’s optimized to be a container server and for super-efficient automated deployments. It worked well, and I loved the elegance behind the design, even though I never did multi-node automated CI/CD deployments with it. I…

  • Personal Disaster Recovery – part one

    About last year at this time, Susie and I were knee-jerking to the fresh news of my cancer, and the first bucket list thing we jumped on was a long-discussed trip to Hawaii. It was an utterly amazing trip, and I\’m so glad we were able to go. Thanks, too, to Delta for offering me…

  • No time for you…

    Ever since we made the move to AT&T Uverse Fiber – and happily said “See ya!” to TimeWarner / Spectrum – we’ve been a household with clocks adrift. NTP (Network Time Protocol) set up on servers didn’t work – although I blamed myself for botched configurations, NTP on security cameras didn\’t work, and network time…

  • WordPress Works!

    Finally, after much wrangling with Apache, PHP, WordPress and its multisite configuration, and SSL certificates, I think I have our little network of sites up, usable, and secure. Time will tell.