Charlotte Thomas

Services

This is an update to my services article I posted a few months ago.

VPS Infrastructure

I have a bigger infrastructure nowadays, it is hosted on mercurycloud which is a small French cloud provider.

I have multiple servers on mercurycloud.

I have another server on Hetzner, it is only used for its sheer reliance to be online 24/7.

Ambassador and Nova are hosted in Rennes, France. Yellowstone has been discontinued, and is replaced by a S3 bucket on Hetzner.

Miranda is hosted on the Hetzner datacentre in Helsinki, Finland.

I run on Ambassador:

On Nova there are:

And finally on Miranda:

Backups

Backups are made each day at T0400+0200 on a S3-compatible bucket, hosted somewhere in Europe, but not in France, thus the data I put there is quadruple safe, first, it is on my personal computer. Second it is on Ambassador on nextcloud. Third it is in the backups of my VPS provider, which puts their data in a glacier somewhere in France. And fourth it is on the glacier of the S3-compatible bucket. So for the data to disappear it would need an explosion of some sort in Rennes, a nuke in France, and a nuke in Europe on the second glacier.

I thus decided that we were sufficiently secured, of course if a nuke is launched on France, I might very well die, which mean the fact the data is safe is not very important anymore, because I’d be dead. But so is life you know.

And oh yes, it is also on my NAS, which will soon have a backup. I’m not paranoid about data retention ;).

CloudFare Page

I use CloudFare Page to run a few static websites.

Migadu

I use Migadu as my email provider. I use the micro yearly plan, for only $20 USD a year I have everything I need. I have emails under the following domains.

NAS

I have a NAS (2TB on RAID1) running on my local network. Its name is Olympic (because it is old, big, and vulnerable)

I have twice daily backups using restic on it.

Hostnames

Plans for the future

In the future, when I have my own home, with my own Network (because I am moving to a place where I don’t control it for the moment). My plan is to run a Server/NAS where I can store my data and expose it to the web to run my applications and everything I need

In the plans there is:

The budget will be around €2,000 to build it, and the minimum spec I want are:

I don’t know if I want to run it on a rack or not. I think not.

Everything is very subject to changes. It’s the early version of what I’m thinking. I may scrap it and run it from an old motherboard because I would have updated my Framework. Maybe. So it can change it’s just what I’m feeling at the moment.

It won’t exists for another year and a half (or more); but it will probably be under some subdomains of charlotte-thomas.me and/or faefox.dev. Probably more faefox.dev as we can all agree, it is the funnier one.

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