Hacker News with Generative AI: Server Management

LightkeeperRM: Lightweight drop-in replacement for maintaining servers over SSH (github.com/kalaksi)
LightkeeperRM (Remote Management) is a lightweight and modular drop-in replacement for maintaining servers over SSH.
AI scrapers from Claude, etc. are incessantly hitting my poor little home server (neowin.net)
So I've hosted my own personal/family server for years now with services like Jellyfin, Nextcloud, etc.  In light of the recent retroactive editing of information I thought it might be a good idea to set up a Kiwix mirror as a "just in case" for certain resources that might come under attack in the current political climate.
Getting Back to the EU: From Google Cloud to Self-Hosted EU Infrastructure (pgaleone.eu)
In this article I’m going to show the process I followed to migrate some of the services I used from Google Cloud to an European provider, in this case OVH. I won’t use their cloud solution, but their VPS offering instead, in order to have full control over the infrastructure.
Show HN: MCPGod: Fine-grained control over MCP clients, servers, and tools (github.com/mcpgod)
MCPGod is a CLI tool designed to help developers manage MCP servers with speed and ease.
(Reasonably) secure Azure Pipelines on-prem deployments (bearblog.dev)
Trying to implement a deployment flow from Azure Devops to an on-prem IIS server, where every account is not an administrator, is a surprisingly difficult task. Here's an approach that works for us, and might for you too!
Linux kernel cgroups writeback high CPU troubleshooting (dasl.cc)
We’ve been upgrading the operating system from CentOS to Ubuntu on hosts across our fleet. Our CentOS hosts run an outdated Linux kernel version (3.10), whereas our Ubuntu hosts run a more modern kernel version (6.8). In August 2024, we began rolling out the Ubuntu upgrade across our Apache web servers. When we migrated larger portions of our fleet to Ubuntu, we began seeing elevated listen overflow errors.
Give a whole server to an agent with the full permission of doing whatever (ycombinator.com)
Setting ethical considerations aside for the moment, I think it can be interesting to see what happens if we have a whole server with a self-evolving AI agent inside with full permission to modify its server.
Maybe we should explicitly schedule rebooting our fleet every so often (utoronto.ca)
We just got through a downtime where we rebooted basically everything in our fleet, including things like firewalls.
Show HN: Self-hosted gateway to access LLMs, Ollama, ComfyUI and FFmpeg servers (servicestack.net)
Hetzner - New tariff structure for Cloud servers and Load balancers in the USA (ycombinator.com)
Starting on 1 December 2024, 01:00 am CET, we will begin charging new prices for newly-created Cloud servers and introduce new amounts for included traffic for Cloud Servers and Load balancers at the US locations in Ashburn (ASH) and Hillsboro (HIL). This also applies to existing Cloud servers and Load balancers that are switched to a different tariff using the “Rescale” function.
A CLI tool for management of Next.js applications (quicky.dev)
A CLI tool that streamlines the deployment and management of self-hosted Next.js projects, enabling initialization, deployment from GitHub, updating, deleting, and managing applications, along with effortless setup of domains and SSL certificates, simplifying the entire lifecycle of Next.js apps on remote servers.
Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts: Make managing your homelab a breeze (proxmoxve-scripts.com)
150+ scripts to help you manage your Proxmox VE environment. Whether you're a seasoned user or a newcomer, Proxmox VE Helper Scripts has got you covered.
NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't (sidhion.com)
Ever since I built my first NixOS system (I started by building a custom image to upload on DigitalOcean), I’ve been bothered by one thing: the default installation size is large.
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Deprecation (microsoft.com)
As part of our vision for simplified Windows management from the cloud, Microsoft has announced deprecation of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
Hey DigitalOcean! Clean your room. (ycombinator.com)
A single server can go a long way these days (twitter.com)
Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts: Make managing your homelab a breeze (vercel.app)
Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys (github.com/d3witt)
Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts: Make managing your homelab a breeze (vercel.app)
Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts (helper-scripts.com)
Ask HN: Please recommend how to manage personal serverss (ycombinator.com)