State of the Thunix for November, 2019

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-# State of the Thunix - October 2019
+# State of the Thunix - November 2019
 
-Howdy all!
+Yep, Turkey Month (For US thunixers)!
 
-More of the same this month, really.  We've had a little spurt of new user accounts getting requested due to tilde.club's grand re-opening.  We did add a couple of new features to Thunix this past month, though.
+Holidays are coming up, and Thunix is approaching our 1 year anniversary!  I hope you've enjoyed your stay thus far, and looking foward to many more years!  Someday, we'll be older than SDF :P
 
-Well, for starters, Thunix is now a member of Tildenet, which is an overlay network.  This really just means it's a network, running on top of the internet, and not running our own direct conneccts, or anything like that.
+We're still working towards migration of the hardware, onto something that is a little bigger, hopefully a little cheaper or the same cost, so we have more room to grow.  Mainly, our constraint is IP addresses, which isn't too big of a deal.  The main reason for it is so we can get a proper hypervisor in place, which will afford us some more flexibility in what we can offer as services.
 
-What this means is that we can open a lot more services that would be considered "unsafe" to open to the whole world.  In fact, we will be looking at opening all ports to the Tildenet network, which is in the 10.0.0.0/8 space.  Even cooler?  Thunix offers VPNs now, that will link you right into Tildenet from your own machine.  The only requirement is that you individual machine must be able to run wireguard.  Shoot me (ubergeek) a message on IRC or an email, requesting a VPN connection, if you're interested.
+Over the past month, we did get a couple of abuse notices, for people running malware.  As a reminder:  Don't do that here.  Most of the time, I notice things awry, and will shut it down, or, we get an abuse notice, and I go on to do the same, but more in depth.  Your account will be terminated immediately, and your files will be handed over to the organization reporting it upon demand, and you will not get a second chance.
 
-Also, there is a plan in place to perform an upgrade at the earliest convience to the hardware we're running on.  Prior to doing so, I'd like to get some more donations in, to cover what will be a doubling of monthly costs for a single month, as we need to rent the new server, get it prepped, then cut over.  If the donations don't come, it'll just have to wait until I get some spare cash.
+We also got a DMCA takedown request, for people trying to host pirated content here.  I work on a best-faith idea here, you end up with 1 warning, and no more.  Afterwards, your acount will be terminated.  This isn't a place to host your movies, your warez, or anything of that sort.
 
-But, all in all, we're still going strong, and no bad news to report :)
+We have to come down hard on folks abusing the resources here, to ensure the community continues for everyone.  It's pretty easy for one rotten apple to ruin it all.  Don't be the rotten apple.
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+Another thing to keep in mind:  While we will make all attempts to back up your data you have here, there are some caveats:
+* We only keep 3 days of backups.
+* Excessivley large home directories will not be backed up
+* Configuration files are not backed up, but kept in source control
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+We only keep 3 days worth due to privacy concerns, mostly.  We don't want to keep your personally identifiable information any longer than is needed.  We also limit it due to space concerns.  Which brings us to the large home directories.
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+If your home dir is bigger than most others, it's likely not being backed up.  For example, I've excluded my home dir from backups, because my generally is over 1GB in size,  There are some that are multiuples of that, which is fine, to a point.   But they are not going to be backed up, due to space and causing the backup jobs to run excessivley long.  If you want your home dir backed up, but it's large, you can let us know which sub directories you may have that can be excluded (ie, git repo clones, as an example).  Just ask in IRC, or by email to root.
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+Well, that sums it up.  I hope everyone is enjoying the use of the system here, and with my usual schpliel:  If you want changes made, open an issue, or a PR in our repos!  Happy holidays, and we'll update here again after the US Turkey Day :)
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+Your friendly neighborhood sysadmin,
+ubergeek/ub3g33k