Sunday, April 12, 2026 at 18:31:20
After discovering a number of issues, and having to fix network problems, I again tried to get the dual-wan up and running. I was successful, but the speed dropped from either WAN connection from about 900Mbps download (and 40Mbps upload) to 80Mbps give or take 15 for download, and 10-20Mbps upload. So I ran some more testing, and finally came up with a compromise setup, where everything can stay the same, except the gateway used will need to be changed on systems from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.2. All else can remain the same. Oh, and it needs to be updated on local LAN dns server pintobean.
+--------------------+ +--------------------+
| | | |
| | | |
| XFinity | | T-Mobile |
| | | |
| 10.0.0.1 | | |
+^---------------+---+ +-------------^------+
| | |
| | |
| | +--------------------+ |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| +------> Dual-WAN +---+
| | |
| | 10.0.0.2 |
| +--------------------+
|
| ########
| #### ########
| ## ######
| # ###
| ## ##
| # LAN #
+----------------# #
## #
## #
##### #
####### ###
###### ########
--> Ascii chart made on Asciiflow.com
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 21:41:57
Something that runs around 6:19am on vps is shutting down apache2, then trying to restart/graceful restart it, but the restart fails because it runs BEFORE apache2 shuts down.
I’m currently attempting to edit /etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf (found this after hours of searching):
changed this:
#$nrconf{restart} = ‘i’;
to this:
$nrconf{restart} = ‘a’;
Fingers crossed.
Also, added this block to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
Unattended-Upgrade::Post-Invoke-Success {
"if systemctl list-units --all --type=service | grep -q 'apache2'; then systemctl restart apache2; fi";
};
Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 17:09:50
To use on same machine:
- Log in as user (not gituser)
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cd /home/thisuser/
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mkdir gitstuff
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cd gitstuff
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git config --global user.email "thisuser@localhost"
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git config --global user.name "thisuser"
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git clone /usr/local/gitpath/newrepositoryname
- At this point, you have an empty directory. Add files, do ‘git add *’, then ‘git commit’, and it will be pushed to main git path.
To use on different machine (linux anyway):
Saturday, August 3, 2024 at 15:35:00
both Ionos systems were inaccessible, had to restart both.
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 20:25:14
Smarty in Flatpress is a new version, and doesn’t take kindly to includes that don’t have quotes. So to get themes to work I’m having to edit the files 😣
Things that look like this:
{include file=header.tpl}
should look like this:
{include file='header.tpl'}
Some more gotchas listed here: https://wiki.flatpre … /doc:tips:smarty2to4