Submitted by 7666 on

I'm still in one of the most aggressive infrastructure upgrade periods I've ever had for Lain.la. I spent 13 hours today just working on upgrades, servers, patching, etc, not to mention the largest maintenance window I've ever had to put up with this month. Let's go over some stuff.

Updates:
  • Lain.la VMs and Gratis (the free ones I give out) VMs are now firewalled off. I have completed my project to implement a new VLAN and /24 subnet to keep my VMs safe from the unwashed masses (just kidding).
  • All Lain.la VMs are now on Debian 11, and Linux Kernel 5.10. This was like, 30 VMs. Hooray!
  • Starbloom is dead. Long live Starbloom.
  • I have a Poweredge R330 that will become my new core router. I'm putting pfSense on it, to replace DD-WRT and enable multi-WAN later on. The R320 was revived with a new motherboard and is back in service.
  • Business fiber! December 1st I'll have a real business gigabit line. Oh boy.
  • More offsite backup storage has been purchased. We now have 48TB of offsites.
  • Those 40G QSFP+ breakout cables work like a charm. The redundant networking project is almost done!
  • If you didn't hear already, the generator project is kill. Too expensive. Would rather do solar.
  • The Netbotz is now in place, but it needs a little help with its email system... Also it tells me not to drag my feet on the carpet too much.
  • The last Mellanox ConnectX-2 cards are out of all hypervisors.
Metrics:
  • Cluster stats:

  • VM Count: 34 on-prem, 11 Hentai nodes, 6 endpoints. 51 VMs.
  • Edge bandwidth: Might be a new record! After tallying all the numbers up, it's well over 650TB.162TBx4 edge nodes, plus about 20TB for other things. Dang!
  • Internal bandwidth: A lot higher due to seedbox activities. Also there was that temporary frying of the R320 motherboard that left a big gap here.
  • Costs: With Starbloom no longer on the books, we save about $20/mo. Also, implementing C-states on servers has dropped the wattage by a little bit across the board. However, adding in the business fiber line additional cost to the budget brings us to $422.50 a month.
  • Uptime: Still kinda bad. We're struggling to hit 3 9's, but to be fair. I have been VERY busy. I'll chill in 2023. I hope.

That's all for now!