Author Archives: independence

Webpage migration, from wiki to markdown

Posted on February 1, 2026 by independence

The Blinkenshell.org main website has been running MoinMoin wiki software since the start all the way back in 2006. MoinMoin wiki software worked out very well for the site and it was popular among open source projects around the that … Continue reading →

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Replacing software RAID1 boot drives with UEFI

Posted on July 28, 2023 by independence

I replaced both of the drives in my RAID1 boot array on a Ubuntu server yesterday and had some struggles so I thought I would write down my experience both for my future self and any others who needs to … Continue reading →

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December updates, infra and vouching

Posted on December 15, 2022 by independence

I haven’t been posting in a while so I thought it was time to write about some small little things I’ve been working in the last week or so. When I haven’t logged in to some servers for a while … Continue reading →

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IRC communities migrating to Libera.Chat

Posted on May 26, 2021 by independence

A lot of worrying news about the Freenode IRC network has been unfolding during the last week, and events today seem to have pushed a lot of big communities like Ubuntu and Gentoo to move from Freenode to other IRC … Continue reading →

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Server overview 2021

Posted on April 10, 2021 by independence

I haven’t really talked about the backend infrastructure for Blinkenshell in a long time, so I thought I would give an update on the servers/VMs that are currently running as of now. Most people probably think it’s just a shell … Continue reading →

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KVM storage live migration

Posted on April 3, 2021 by independence

One of the features I’ve been most excited about with this new server setup is KVM live migration using virsh migrate with copy-storage-all. This is like a regular VM live migration, but you can do it even if you don’t … Continue reading →

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Fail2ban routing actions

Posted on March 7, 2021 by independence

I said I should be doing some more technical posts so here we go! Blinkenshell runs the SSH server on a non-standard port (mainly port 2222, but also port 443 for people trying to avoid some firewalls), and the reason … Continue reading →

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New server up and running

Posted on February 28, 2021 by independence

I’m happy to report that the big maintenance window yesterday was successful and we are now running live on the new server hardware! I’ve spent a lot of time earlier this week doing final preparations and planning the exact steps … Continue reading →

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Server updates 2021

Posted on February 21, 2021 by independence

Some of you might have caught a teaser picture I pasted on IRC a couple of weeks back of some server internals. This is actually what’s going to become the new main server for Blinkenshell in 2021! The current server … Continue reading →

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