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Diddly
March 26, 2015, 2:50pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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Bear with me, the web server is currently running from an emergency backup (on the Diddlycraft server).

As you may know, the web server was running on a neat little cubox-i device.  But I noticed it was a bit slow reading/writing to the SD Card filesystem.  I recently bought a high-speed card to use instead, and last night cloned the old SD Card onto the new one.  This morning I tried booting the new card, and the cubox-i was unresponsive.  So I booted the old card, and the cubox-i was still unresponsive.

Luckily, I had recently been experimenting with lightweight server software called nginx on the Diddlycraft hardware.  I restored the nightly web server backup to that machine and am now running off it.  There are a few glitches I haven't yet resolved (like Darkshade Vote) but on the whole it works.  With the cubox-i acting dead, there wasn't much choice until I can spend some time investigating.


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Diddly
March 31, 2015, 8:25pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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I think, given the responsiveness of the "backup" server, and the fact that it doesn't seem to impact Diddlycraft, I will just make it the primary web server.


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I've updated the cubox-i with the same high-performance web server software as the backup server, so today I was able to switch back.  It's nice having a tiny little 5 volt 2" cube as the web server.  Now I can power down the backup hardware (which for a spell was running EVERYTHING, including Diddlycraft), and save some hydro.



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