#digitalocean

The ID10TS at DigitalOcean's "cloud infrastructure-as-a-service" tried not once, not even twice, but three times to hack post to my DLCC website. They used bogus browser data in the attempts.

Needless to say, their access attempts were denied... 😁

This is the equivalent of a spoiled child throwing a digital fit when it realized it didn't get its way... 🙄

But, keep on trying. It's always entertaining to see an ID10T child's temper tantrum -- unless it's your own child, of course... 😆

Forgejo Became My Server Canary Image 1. Discovering too much security I had another server outage, but this one was different. I did not discover it because someone emailed me, because a visitor reported a broken website, or because I happened to check one of my pages. I discovered it because I tried to push code to Forgejo. That was the first sign that something was wrong. Forgejo is one of…

Still Blind After the Log Storm: When “Unsupported” Isn’t the End of the Story In April, I ran into a server problem that turned a monitoring tool into part of the outage. The short version is this: the DigitalOcean monitoring agent began producing repeated filesystem metric errors on a CloudLinux/cPanel server using CageFS. The logs grew until /var/log consumed roughly 96 GB, CPU stayed high,…

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DigitalOcean ogłosił wyniki testów wydajności dla swojej platformy zapewniającej obsługę obciążeń intensywnie wykorzystujących sztuczną inteligencję (AI). Testy były prowadzone na maszynach wirtualnych na podstawie systemu operacyjnego Ubuntu 20.04, zasobami CPU i pamięci odpowiednio równe 64GB i 128GB. Najważniejsze wyniki: Wyniki pokazują, że obciążeń intensywnie wykorzystujących AI jest…

Migrating Away from Hostinger: A Day of DNS, Databases, and Determination Today was one of those deep infrastructure days—the kind where progress doesn’t always look flashy, but everything underneath gets stronger. I spent most of the day migrating multiple domains and subdomains from Hostinger to my own hosting environment. Along with that came two email accounts and eight MySQL databases. On…