Hetzner, Docker, and KVM: A New Beginning

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:00:00 +0000

This post has been in the planning phase for a long while now as I have lost interest in blogging over the last few months. As you may have noticed this blog has been moved about a few times and has changed the back-end blogging system just as much.

corrigan.xyz is now running on a hosted server somewhere in Germany by Hetzner Online. I got it for £52.44 a month from the server auction system. The full specifications of the box are as below, and it is running Ubuntu 18.04

Intel Xeon E3-1271V3
2x HDD SATA 4,0 TB Enterprise
4x RAM 8192 MB DDR3 ECC
NIC 1 Gbit — Intel I210
RAID Controller — LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i

I acquired this server to replace a few other services I was paying for separately. First of was my Scaleway nodes, two to be exact, one in France another in Amsterdam. I have kept one of these around as a backup server, the above server rsyncs data to it just in case. The exact specifications of VPSs have changed over time, but the one remaining VPS is spec’d as below.

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Hetzner, Docker, and KVM: A New Beginning