We are going global! (Just kidding kind of) We are now multi-location aware hosting! https://althatech.com is hosted separately from our primary office location. This is for redundancy and scaling. It's an important...
Open note →Writing archive
Category: Awesomeness
We have completed an upgrade across the Nixos-Scale fleet and applications (So this affects your websites) which includes packages and kernel updates. We are now running on linux kernel 6.18.36! This is the most recent...
Open note →AI access and usage is beginning to be restricted by the government. This is a big deal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbafEATbfXQ
Open note →We had another brief outage yesterday, this was somewhat intended. It will have affected about ~35% of our sites. What we are working on is migrating our sites over from our old system, which used Docker, Debian, and a...
Open note →We are having some networking issues. The likely issue is a bad network switch. We have a new spare on hand so replacing that seems to have sorted out some of the problems. Keeping an eye on it.
Open note →ALITA is ALIVE! She was alive before, to be honest, but now we've added her into nixos-scale. Previously we have used a storage server called TrueNAS for the past few years. It runs ZFS under the hood (which is the real...
Open note →Motherboard arrived for our AI compute node! This is the main brains that connects our AI GPU, to the CPU, RAM, Networking, and everything else needed to run local AI models. It needs to have 10 gigabit networking...
Open note →We have added another new App-Kind to Nixos-Scale! (Nixos-Scale is our new hosting infrastructure we are building) Peertube is a video site used for hosting and serving videos, like a private Youtube alternative. You...
Open note →We just bought our first GPU for AI Inference! The goal is to be able to provide local, private, AI workflows for various products and projects. Things like actually good email spam filtering, for example. Also we will...
Open note →What’s FOSS, Anyway?
What’s FOSS? FOSS is an acronym for Free & Open Source Software[1]. Most software that we are familiar with is not open source. What does it mean that...
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