web02.fireside.fm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:45:20 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Ask Noah Show - Episodes Tagged with “Hosting” https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/tags/hosting Tue, 08 Apr 2025 20:00:00 -0500 The Ask Noah Show is a weekly talk radio show where we focus on Linux and Open Source technology. We invite the community to participate live on the air 1-855-450-6624. The show airs Tuesdays at 6pm CT on asknoahshow.com and at KEQQ 88.3 FM in Grand Forks ND. It's a free call 1-855-450-NOAH so join us and start on your way to owning your operating system, your software, and technology. en-us episodic The community centered show where you are the content! Noah J. Chelliah The Ask Noah Show is a weekly talk radio show where we focus on Linux and Open Source technology. We invite the community to participate live on the air 1-855-450-6624. The show airs Tuesdays at 6pm CT on asknoahshow.com and at KEQQ 88.3 FM in Grand Forks ND. It's a free call 1-855-450-NOAH so join us and start on your way to owning your operating system, your software, and technology. no Noah J. Chelliah live@asknoahshow.com Ask Noah Show 436 https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/436 12766617-945c-42c5-be78-ec8ce0442d90 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 20:00:00 -0500 Noah J. Chelliah full Noah J. Chelliah This week Steve builds a backup server, and tells us how and why! 53:57 no This week Steve builds a backup server, and tells us how and why! -- During The Show -- 01:13 GrapheneOS & Teams - Kevin Needed unsandboxed play services Broke on the next update This problem reported across OSes (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/new-ms-teams-version-not-working-getting-error-no/8a4e48a0-e97b-47f6-9ab9-4c82bc8ba768?page=1) People reported needing to install "the framework" Apps stay in their sandbox Use app in a web browser 06:26 VMs - Mike Covered later in the show 07:35 searXNG - Donald More than a proxy Better results than other search engines 10:00 News Wire Curl 8.13 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/) GnuCash 5.11 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml) GNU Nano 8.4 - lists.gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-04/msg00001.html) Apt 3.0 - debian.org (https://tracker.debian.org/news/1635519/accepted-apt-300-source-into-unstable/) Thunderbird 137 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/137.0/releasenotes/) Firefox 137 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.0/releasenotes/) KDE Plasma 6.3.4 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.4/) Rust 1.86 - releases.rs (https://releases.rs/docs/1.86.0/) Qt 6.9 - wiki.qt.io (https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_6.9_Release) Nvidia PhysX and Flow - wccftech.com (https://wccftech.com/nvidia-physx-and-flow-are-now-fully-open-source/) Outlaw Malware - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/outlaw-group-uses-ssh-brute-force-to.html) Open Source Malware Index - infoworld.com (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3953841/sonatype-warns-of-18000-open-source-malware-packages.html) ProteuX 2.0 - github.com (https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases/tag/v2.0) New Fedora Project Lead Jef Spaleta - fedoramagazine.org (https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-project-leader-jef-spaleta/) 11:30 Interview Jon Segar VP of Engineering at Ubuntu uutils coreutils Licenses Growing the Ubuntu Community Feature parity & rough edges Default in 25.10 build Memory safe languages Moving people's cheese 23:00 Steve's Off Site Backup Backup server in an out building What's the most important thing Swim lanes Breaking things down Nextcloud island Containers vs VMs Nginx vs Apache Managing and backing up data Storage, NFS vs Direct Block access Sanoid (https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid) Supermicro motherboards iDrac, IPMI, PiKVM SOC vs standard system backup server considerations Moving Home Assistant from dev to prod -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/436) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) Special Guest: Jon Seager. This week Steve builds a backup server, and tells us how and why!

-- During The Show --

01:13 GrapheneOS & Teams - Kevin

  • Needed unsandboxed play services
  • Broke on the next update
  • This problem reported across OSes
  • People reported needing to install "the framework"
  • Apps stay in their sandbox
  • Use app in a web browser

06:26 VMs - Mike

  • Covered later in the show

07:35 searXNG - Donald

  • More than a proxy
  • Better results than other search engines

10:00 News Wire

11:30 Interview Jon Segar

  • VP of Engineering at Ubuntu
  • uutils coreutils
  • Licenses
  • Growing the Ubuntu Community
  • Feature parity & rough edges
  • Default in 25.10 build
  • Memory safe languages
  • Moving people's cheese

23:00 Steve's Off Site Backup

  • Backup server in an out building
  • What's the most important thing
  • Swim lanes
  • Breaking things down
  • Nextcloud island
  • Containers vs VMs
  • Nginx vs Apache
  • Managing and backing up data
  • Storage, NFS vs Direct Block access
  • Sanoid
  • Supermicro motherboards
  • iDrac, IPMI, PiKVM
  • SOC vs standard system
  • backup server considerations
  • Moving Home Assistant from dev to prod

-- The Extra Credit Section --

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-- During The Show --

01:13 GrapheneOS & Teams - Kevin

  • Needed unsandboxed play services
  • Broke on the next update
  • This problem reported across OSes
  • People reported needing to install "the framework"
  • Apps stay in their sandbox
  • Use app in a web browser

06:26 VMs - Mike

  • Covered later in the show

07:35 searXNG - Donald

  • More than a proxy
  • Better results than other search engines

10:00 News Wire

11:30 Interview Jon Segar

  • VP of Engineering at Ubuntu
  • uutils coreutils
  • Licenses
  • Growing the Ubuntu Community
  • Feature parity & rough edges
  • Default in 25.10 build
  • Memory safe languages
  • Moving people's cheese

23:00 Steve's Off Site Backup

  • Backup server in an out building
  • What's the most important thing
  • Swim lanes
  • Breaking things down
  • Nextcloud island
  • Containers vs VMs
  • Nginx vs Apache
  • Managing and backing up data
  • Storage, NFS vs Direct Block access
  • Sanoid
  • Supermicro motherboards
  • iDrac, IPMI, PiKVM
  • SOC vs standard system
  • backup server considerations
  • Moving Home Assistant from dev to prod

-- The Extra Credit Section --

For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard!

This Episode's Podcast Dashboard

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]]> Episode 272: Migrating Matrix with 12K Users https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/272 db0deaa7-9c8f-4dcd-bf51-ad73d339f8e4 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 20:00:00 -0600 Noah J. Chelliah full Noah J. Chelliah This week we tried to migrate our Matrix instance to our own data center, it didn't go well. We discuss our mistakes and what our next steps are. Your calls, your emails we cover it all in this episode! 57:06 no This week we tried to migrate our Matrix instance to our own data center, it didn't go well. We discuss our mistakes and what our next steps are. Your calls, your emails we cover it all in this episode! -- During The Show -- 00:55 Steve's Weekend Client Prep 02:23 Caller Tony Client received a police call Transparent Proxy Managed Switches DNS Resolver/Forwarder Firewall Rules Squid Proxy Dragon's Tail 11:20 VLAN questions - Tyler TP Link G105E (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N0OHEMA/?tag=minddripmedia-20) HP OfficeConnect Switch (https://www.ebay.com/itm/373794096000?epid=9030355100&hash=item5707dd4380:g:htwAAOSwhlZhk9rb) Multiple Network Cards Managed Switch Cisco HP 1920 Series Stacking 17:30 Light Automation - John All smart bulbs have a failsafe Shelly 1 (https://shelly.cloud/products/shelly-1-smart-home-automation-relay/) Smart Assistant Smart stuff at the switch GE Enbrighten Zwave Plus (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07226MG2T/?tag=minddripmedia-20) UltraPro Switch (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B3LXZJ9/?tag=minddripmedia-20) Lutron Switches (https://www.lutron.com/en-US/Products/Pages/WholeHomeSystems/RadioRA2/Overview.aspx) Inovelli (https://inovelli.com/products/switches/) 24:46 User recommends software - Brett DerbyNet (https://jeffpiazza.github.io/derbynet/) Pinewood Derby Software Real Time stats, Live instant replay, and more! 27:03 RHCE Questions - MHJ RHCE is hard Skills Based RHCSA is required before you can be called a RHCE Class is not required, but will help you a lot VTC Class 36:50 Tim Asked The guy with MoCA adapters that fail... He has to be sure that any splitters along the way are compatible (will pass the right frequencies). Also, if the cable is connected to CATV, he may need an in-line filter that will prevent his in-house MoCA signalling from propagating up the line to the cable company or the neighbors if the neighborhood infrastructure is old enough. 37:20 sunjam Asked Curious about custom local domain name resolution. Setup avahi for hostname.local on my pi, but curious about adding services to *.home in addition to .local Pseudo TLD Reserved Pseudo Domains mDNS 39:21 CubicleNate Asked I want to know where to get low(er) cost used rack mountable storage solutions. What interfaces are used between them? I have a raid 10 btrfs array I want to grow. eSATA Enclosure (https://www.datoptic.com/ec/hardware-raid-five-5-bay-1u-rackmount-esata-interface.html) InfiniBand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand) 42:19 Caller George Digitize VHS C tapes Janacane Converter (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NPFJJ7K/?tag=minddripmedia-20) VHS player with built in converter to DVD 46:48 Linux News Wire Slackware 15 Announcement (http://www.slackware.com/announce/15.0.php) Slackware 15 The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/07/slackware/) Tiny Core Linux 13 (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tiny-core-linux-13-released) Peppermint 11 Release (https://news.itsfoss.com/peppermint-11-release/) Trisquel 10 Release (https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-10-nabia-release-announcement) Openmandriva 4.3 Released (https://www.openmandriva.org/en/news/article/openmandriva-lx-4-3-released) Libre Office 73 Community (https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/02/02/libreoffice-73-community/) AMD Linux Client Hiring (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Linux-Client-Hiring-2022) RISC V Investment from Intel (https://riscv.org/whats-new/2022/02/intel-corporation-makes-deep-investment-in-risc-v-community-to-accelerate-innovation-in-open-computing/) Intel Invests Billion into RISC V (https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-invests-in-open-source-risc-v-processors-with-a-billion-dollars-in-new-chip-foundries/) 3dfx Glide Coming to Linux (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/3dfx-glide-linux-gaming) Local Privilege Escalation (https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/hunting-pwnkit-local-privilege-escalation-in-linux/) 12 Year Old Local Privilege Escalation on Linux (https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/all-linux-distributions-affected-by-12-year-old-pwnkit-local-privilege-escalation-bug-allowing-an-attacker-to-execute-commands-as-root/) Sama Code Execution Bug (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/02/02/samba-bug-may-allow-code-execution-as-root-on-linux-machines-nas-devices-cve-2021-44142/) Argo CD High Severity Flaw (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/04/argo_cd_0day_kubernetes/) Google Open Source Story (https://thenewstack.io/a-kubernetes-documentary-shares-googles-open-source-story/) Oracle Linux in Windows Store (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/02/oracle_linux_microsoft/) Github Sponsor Only Repos (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/02/github-introduces-sponsor-only-repositories/) 48:39 MDM Data Migration Linux Delta Matrix Server Digital Ocean Bill was doubling 12,000+ Users Data Migration took 4+ days Ansible and Containers Postgres issues Learned a lot What is your baseline? Possible Solutions -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/272) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) Special Guest: JT Pennington. This week we tried to migrate our Matrix instance to our own data center, it didn't go well. We discuss our mistakes and what our next steps are. Your calls, your emails we cover it all in this episode!

-- During The Show --

00:55 Steve's Weekend

  • Client Prep

02:23 Caller Tony

  • Client received a police call
  • Transparent Proxy
  • Managed Switches
  • DNS Resolver/Forwarder
  • Firewall Rules
  • Squid Proxy
  • Dragon's Tail

11:20 VLAN questions - Tyler

17:30 Light Automation - John

24:46 User recommends software - Brett

  • DerbyNet
  • Pinewood Derby Software
  • Real Time stats, Live instant replay, and more!

27:03 RHCE Questions - MHJ

  • RHCE is hard
  • Skills Based
  • RHCSA is required before you can be called a RHCE
  • Class is not required, but will help you a lot
  • VTC Class

36:50 Tim Asked

The guy with MoCA adapters that fail... He has to be sure that any splitters along the way are compatible (will pass the right frequencies). Also, if the cable is connected to CATV, he may need an in-line filter that will prevent his in-house MoCA signalling from propagating up the line to the cable company or the neighbors if the neighborhood infrastructure is old enough.

37:20 sunjam Asked

  • Curious about custom local domain name resolution. Setup avahi for hostname.local on my pi, but curious about adding services to *.home in addition to .local
  • Pseudo TLD
  • Reserved Pseudo Domains
  • mDNS

39:21 CubicleNate Asked

I want to know where to get low(er) cost used rack mountable storage solutions. What interfaces are used between them? I have a raid 10 btrfs array I want to grow.

42:19 Caller George

46:48 Linux News Wire

48:39 MDM Data Migration

  • Linux Delta Matrix Server
  • Digital Ocean Bill was doubling
  • 12,000+ Users
  • Data Migration took 4+ days
  • Ansible and Containers
  • Postgres issues
  • Learned a lot
  • What is your baseline?
  • Possible Solutions

-- The Extra Credit Section --

For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard!

This Episode's Podcast Dashboard

Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys

Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix

-- Stay In Touch --

Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard

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Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show!

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]]> This week we tried to migrate our Matrix instance to our own data center, it didn't go well. We discuss our mistakes and what our next steps are. Your calls, your emails we cover it all in this episode!

-- During The Show --

00:55 Steve's Weekend

  • Client Prep

02:23 Caller Tony

  • Client received a police call
  • Transparent Proxy
  • Managed Switches
  • DNS Resolver/Forwarder
  • Firewall Rules
  • Squid Proxy
  • Dragon's Tail

11:20 VLAN questions - Tyler

17:30 Light Automation - John

24:46 User recommends software - Brett

  • DerbyNet
  • Pinewood Derby Software
  • Real Time stats, Live instant replay, and more!

27:03 RHCE Questions - MHJ

  • RHCE is hard
  • Skills Based
  • RHCSA is required before you can be called a RHCE
  • Class is not required, but will help you a lot
  • VTC Class

36:50 Tim Asked

The guy with MoCA adapters that fail... He has to be sure that any splitters along the way are compatible (will pass the right frequencies). Also, if the cable is connected to CATV, he may need an in-line filter that will prevent his in-house MoCA signalling from propagating up the line to the cable company or the neighbors if the neighborhood infrastructure is old enough.

37:20 sunjam Asked

  • Curious about custom local domain name resolution. Setup avahi for hostname.local on my pi, but curious about adding services to *.home in addition to .local
  • Pseudo TLD
  • Reserved Pseudo Domains
  • mDNS

39:21 CubicleNate Asked

I want to know where to get low(er) cost used rack mountable storage solutions. What interfaces are used between them? I have a raid 10 btrfs array I want to grow.

42:19 Caller George

46:48 Linux News Wire

48:39 MDM Data Migration

  • Linux Delta Matrix Server
  • Digital Ocean Bill was doubling
  • 12,000+ Users
  • Data Migration took 4+ days
  • Ansible and Containers
  • Postgres issues
  • Learned a lot
  • What is your baseline?
  • Possible Solutions

-- The Extra Credit Section --

For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard!

This Episode's Podcast Dashboard

Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys

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