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title: Cybrecluster
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The Cybrecluster project aims at linking my different websites in a manner
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akin to a webring. It was imagined during the summer of 2020.
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## Sites
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* https://brainshit.fr/
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* https://tilde.town/~lucidiot/
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* https://envs.net/~lucidiot/
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* https://breadpunk.club/~lucitoast/
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## Goals
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* Increase the visibility of all of my projects
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* Lighten the load on [mountain](../mountain.html) by trusting other tildes
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* Increase my involvement in tildes
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* Encourage both a visitor and me to browse all of my websites
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* Reduce my fear of abandoning a particular website
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## My computers are my tools
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When I designed this project, my French blog was hosted at home on `carthage`,
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an Intel NUC, using Ubuntu Server, Docker, systemd, Apache, PHP, MySQL, and
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the server was also providing other services such as Nextcloud, HedgeDoc,
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TinyTinyRSS, a NuGet package server, and a LAN-only WebDAV server, all behind
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a nginx reverse proxy with a separate container to handle Let's Encrypt
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certificate renewal. All of those containers were managed using Docker
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Compose.
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Handling this structure was pretty complex, as I get very quickly frustrated
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when it comes to most modern deployment tech. I realized over time that this
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is not what I want to do. I do not want the "Cloud". If I am going to
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self-host, then it should be by my rule, by how I think computers should run.
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Feeling constantly annoyed at my own server's setup, feeling unable to make any
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process on a project that relates to this server because of its state, just
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means I need to change the way I run my server.
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I like the tilde culture, in which we turn random, "soulless" computers in the
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cloud into cozy places. Into safe places where I feel like I can grow, I can
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thrive. So I wanted to have a server that gets closer to that.
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I still want to self-host; I like being able to see my equipment just by
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turning my head, having access to it even when my internet connection is down,
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or hearing a very quiet fan noise at night. But I also want to get involved
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in tildes, and I have an account on three tildes already; I want to publish
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everywhere and not look dead. I was putting some stress on myself because I
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really wanted to do something, I do not want those accounts to be a waste.
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The last thing I want to do to any tilde is to make it waste resources.
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I solved that dilemma, and started seeing my server in a better light, by
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imagining the cybrecluster.
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## Rules
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After getting a little further into this idea, making it clearer in my mind,
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I defined a set of rules.
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* **Be simple.**
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* Start small
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* Plan often, but plan small
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* Remove unneeded abstractions
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* **Be resilient.**
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* Backups
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* Write documentation for my projects
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* Reuse existing systems, formats and protocols
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* [Archive](https://archive.org) things
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* Monitor my server, sites, services
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* **Be active.**
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* Learn what I need, not just for the sake of learning
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* Create what I want, what I enjoy
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* Publish what I can
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This sounds rather close to an [integrity report](../integrity-report.html).
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## Actions taken
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* Stopped the NuGet package server as the projects that relied on it went stale
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* Migrated to envs.net's TinyTinyRSS instance
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* Stopped my TinyTinyRSS instance
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* Stopped the PostgreSQL database that powered the TinyTinyRSS instance
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* Migrated my files from Nextcloud to Syncthing
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* Migrated my calendar and contacts to [Framagenda](https://framagenda.org)
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* Stopped my Nextcloud instance
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* Migrated my HedgeDoc files to some .md files in a Syncthing folder, using
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envs.net's HedgeDoc instance when I need multiplayer text editing
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* Stopped my HedgeDoc instance
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* Set up Alpine Linux, nginx, certbot, MariaDB, PHP 7, Munin and Syncthing on
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[Mountain](../mountain.html)
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* Migrated my WebDAV server to Mountain
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* Migrated my French blog to PHP 7
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* Migrated my French blog to Mountain
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* Stopped all Docker services on Carthage
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* Migrated all my Syncthing folders to Mountain
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* [Sold Carthage](./carthage.html) to a friend at a fair price
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* Added a Cybrecluster banner to all of my websites
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* Started posting about my tilde projects on my self-hosted French blog
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* Created this wiki
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## Actions to take
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[This blog article](https://brainshit.fr/read/240) introduces the cybrecluster
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to my French audience and describes the actions to take regarding
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[Brainshit](../brainshit.html).
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* Create a "decentralized monitoring": each server (mine, or a tilde) checks
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on the others, and reports their status on a status page
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* Could have an RSS feed with [mod_servicestatus][mod_servicestatus]
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* Could have a cool diagram ([source](./graph.dot)):
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* Maybe self-host a [DAViCal](https://davical.org) instance, as Framagenda's
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operator, Framasoft, encourages moving away from its platform into smaller,
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more decentralized hosts
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* Make my French blog into a static site
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* Remove PHP 7 and MariaDB from Mountain
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* Convert the tilde.town site to a static site generator
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* Add a Gopher version of my french blog
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* Add a Gopher version of my town site
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* Add a Gopher version of my breadsite
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* Add a Gopher version of this wiki
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* Add a Gemini version of my french blog
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* Add a Gemini version of my town site
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* Add a Gemini version of my breadsite
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* Add a Gemini version of this wiki
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[mod_servicestatus]: https://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/servicestatus/
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