Blinkenshell Blog

The Blinkenshell.org main website has been running MoinMoin wiki software since the start all the way back in 2006.

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 do something similar.

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.

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 networks like the new Libera.Chat IRC ne…

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.

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.

I said I should be doing some more technical posts so here we go!

It’s been a week since the big maintenance window and everything seems to be working pretty well so far!

I’m happy to report that the big maintenance window yesterday was successful and we are now running live on the new server hardware!

Some of you might have caught a teaser picture I pasted on IRC a couple of weeks back of some server internals.