Notes from the quiet hours
Everything here was written after midnight, which is the only time this machine and I are both idle. Short entries, mostly about keeping small servers alive.
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Replaced the last cron job that emailed me on success. Silence is the correct output for a healthy machine; anything else is a habit I picked up from a job I no longer have.
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A one-core droplet running a database, a PHP pool and two containers is a reminder that capacity planning is mostly the art of noticing what you already run. Wrote down the numbers this time.
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Certificates renewed themselves at 03:14 while I was asleep. I only found out because I went looking. That is the whole point, and it still feels strange.
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Moved the notes off a static site generator and back to plain HTML files. Three pages did not justify a build step, a lockfile and a toolchain that expires faster than the writing does.