Server EOL

[valis]

We have been hosted on a CentOS based server that I have run since 2006, and I believe I took over the hosting of these forums somewhere around there (it may have been as late as 2009, but I do believe it was 06/07 ish without looking to check). CentOS has been deprecated by RedHat in favor of commercial solutions. Though the open source community does offer a fork, my hosting currently does not have a simple migration path (read: pay hourly rather than built in cost).

As a result, I am going to take this opportunity to change several things about the way I have structured this side of my working life for many years. I could move us to a cheap hosted slot somewhere in cloud hosting, but you would notice it would take a while to spin up when nobody has visited for a while, it would be sluggish overall, I would have to jettison the older hosted files (most aren't linked anyway, but many were restored in various efforts over the years) as the hosted files are currently about 5GB for what still works, but 20GB overall once you included music and the legacy phpbb 2.x file database.

The biggest issue which is transparent to most of you is that the bandwidth used by random https hits, bots and spammers exceeds any of the cheap affordable slots. Combine that with the size of the hosted files and music and it's still worth it to keep this on my larger server--which is moving.

If you notice downtime (even if it last weeks or longer, as I'm assessing several longterm plans) rest assured PlanetZ will not be gone, simply in the process of a migration to a new server for us all to inhabit.

[Peter Drake]

Thank you

[garyb]

ok, thanks!

[nebelfuerst]

What flavour of linux do you plan to use now ? (Rocky ? )

[spacef]

thanks for your time and efforts.
what does EOL mean ?

[nebelfuerst]

EO=End of Life

[t_tangent]

Thanks for all your time and effort keeping this invaluable forum up and running. Best of luck with the changes, and thanks for letting us know too

[Rafe]

Thanks for all the efforts keeping this forum going
Hope the transfer goes as expected

[Spielraum]

good to know, thank you

[LorenOA76]

Valis Thank you so much!

[valis]

Still hasn't moved, but updated a few things. We should be stable for a bit, but the box is now locked down on a version of CentOS that cannot be updated even if I wanted to. That should prevent any brand new exploits from being an issue, and of course I have nightly backup images that span several months that I can always go to if needed.

[t_tangent]

Great to hear. Thanks dude

[garyb]

[rawkhard]

Thak YOU Valis!!

[Sounddesigner]

I'm sure the next chapter of Planetz will be fine! Thanks Valis!

[Xite Knight v2.0]

Thanks a lot Valis. You're a real trooper!

[Joey]

I'd like to say thank you as well, Valis. It's so wonderful that this forum is still alive.

[Bud Weiser]

I'd like to say thank you as well, Valis. It's so wonderful that this forum is still alive.

ditto !
Can´t live without,- at least as long as I´m using SCOPE,- and I might use it in the urn still ...

Bud

[LunaMan]

Yes great forum. Could do without the WayneBlita stuff though.

[valis]

Wayneblita? If you mean the spam I’ve changed captions several times and none of them are any any better and all are more complicated than the default which I went back to. AI has made it too easy with somebody that has native English capacity to defeat all protections.