CloudAtCost servers not accessible again. 

Sib Mahapatra: "America can’t be destroyed from the outside. Extremists will never be powerful enough to destroy the pillars of our democracy. But we are powerful enough to destroy them ourselves."

Amazon has enabled "computer" as a wake word for Echo. Feeling very Trekkie! 

I've installed the latest version of Docker Engine, v1.13 on my MintBox. So far, so good. One of the first containers I have installed is web UI for Docker called Portainer, which I think is very nice. I am running DockerUI on my RaspberryPi and I think Portainer is better.

The Containerizers provides a nice set of tutorial videos on YouTube that you can watch to learn Docker. You can also use an online site at http://play-with-docker.com to run docker in a web browser sandbox without having to install it on your computer.

Dave has added the ability to create Listicles to Little Outliner. Here is my first one. 

I can't imagine going from literally having the weight of the world on your shoulders, to flying off in to the sunset. 

Got a new toy in the cave, and this is my first post using it. The MintBox Mini Pro is a version of the Compulab fitlet with Linux Mint pre-installed. I am surprised by it's weight, it is pretty heavy, and how hot it gets. There is no fan inside and the metal case dissipates heat from the processor.

After experienced repeated issues with the virtual server I've been using to host my River5 site, I decided to delete and rebuild it. I am about to start the rebuild process. 

First step, log and update the server software.

All updates are done,  installing node

Install git

Create my user account

Clone River5 from github

Point mywebstream.net to the new IP address

Start river5.js

Clone my RSS Subscriptions lists

Start river5.js

Edit config.json to implement configurations settings

Final testing, and done! If I were not multitasking while the steps above execute, I think I could have rebuilt the server in about 15 minutes. The longest running tasks where the OS software updates.

One thing I did different this time is that I decided to not run River5 in a docker container. I originally built my River4 site in a container as an exercise to learn Docker. Given that I am not running mutiple applications, I have come to the conclusion that using Docker was an additional layer that was not adding value. 

The process above has reminded me of one thing, which is that I need clone my RSS Subscriptions lists to the server I have running nodestorage/Little Outliner so that edits to my subsriptions have way back to my River5 site. I know the subscriptions lists that I just put on my River5 site are not current.

Another week, another outage of my server at CloudAtCost.