Linux upgrades
I took advantage of the enforced, unplanned outage to update SLES 11 from SP2 to SP3.
All good – the only tiny gotcha was running the MySQL upgrade manually at the end.
Otherwise – looks happy so far.
udev, SLES and Hyper-V
I got bitten by the udev GUIDs when I did the move/upgrade/move back of my on-prem blog server this morning.
What should have been a simple evacuation of some VMs, upgrade the host to Windows Server 2012 R2, move the old VMs back in place – turned into another episode of handcrafting grub entries and checking that everything mounted back up correctly.
I got bit by this before – and I need to drill into the best practices for using SLES 11/udev in a virtual environment.
Re-testing Azure
After an initial set of testing in 2011 – I am back testing the Azure IaaS capabilities for the blog.
Raspberry Pi
Finally it arrived. Unboxed; find all of the bits needed (Micro USB power supply, USB keyboard, 2GB SD card); download the beta bits; boot and it worked.
I’ve not done anything beyond this – just checking the darn thing worked.
Another blogging restart
I’ve said it before – but hopefully there’s more to blog about again.
Less confidential stuff; lots more around Private Cloud and datacenter transformation.
.. the more things stay the same
Back to self hosting.
The blog has moved from home, to hosting at GoDaddy and up to Azure.
All had advantages – all had downsides. It’s the private cloud/public cloud conversation in a nutshell.
Ultimately GoDaddy performance let it down – especially for the database – was unacceptable. Their support was also pretty poor. As always “you get what you pay for” – but the bottlenecks for even simple, near static, WordPress sites were unacceptable.
Azure has a lot going for it – I am still keeping my eye on future features that are currently in beta. Performance was incredible; the process of getting apps updated was a little too cumbersome for me.
Self hosting really requires me to get dirty with the infrastructure and tuning – but the fact that I can lets me drive the performance. I’m also responsible for everything below the app – hardware, storage, network, connectivity, OS, security etc etc.
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