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[1085.50 --> 1089.20] Well, it's all changed fairly soon anyway.
[1090.04 --> 1093.50] I think largely speaking, the fundamental stuff is going to stay the same.
[1094.04 --> 1100.20] But when I emigrated three or four years ago, I left my old server in England, along with
[1100.20 --> 1101.20] all the data that was on it.
[1101.22 --> 1106.22] And I just left it there because I arrived in this country, you know, as a prospector with
[1106.22 --> 1108.48] nothing but a suitcase and a rucksack, don't you know?
[1109.10 --> 1110.30] Oh my God, Alex.
[1110.92 --> 1111.92] It's true, though.
[1112.32 --> 1113.34] It literally is true.
[1113.34 --> 1118.02] And the container that had all of my actual stuff in it took like three or four months
[1118.02 --> 1119.00] to come across the ocean.
[1119.34 --> 1125.20] And now here you are in an American house in the suburbs with big thunderstorms.
[1125.24 --> 1126.46] Full of crap.
[1126.78 --> 1127.96] Yeah, full of crap.
[1129.02 --> 1129.94] Lots of toys.
[1130.16 --> 1131.02] Yeah, you're doing it right.
[1131.14 --> 1136.56] You know, the general idea was to use that server in England as my primary endpoint for
[1136.56 --> 1139.66] when I needed to come out at a residential IP address for iPlayer.
[1139.66 --> 1144.60] But also there was about 20 or 30 terabytes worth of hard drives in that system, which
[1144.60 --> 1147.20] I pulled together using ZFS.
[1147.76 --> 1151.80] I used to do ZFS mirrors, but I ran out of space.
[1151.88 --> 1154.86] And so I ended up turning it into like a Z2 array, I think.
[1155.12 --> 1156.38] I can't remember the specifics.
[1156.88 --> 1161.72] A Z2 array of like five or six different three or four terabyte hard drives.
[1161.80 --> 1162.52] Maybe they're eights.
[1162.74 --> 1163.92] It doesn't really matter.
[1163.92 --> 1170.52] So the idea there is that over WireGarden, bear in mind this predates tail scale by what,
[1170.62 --> 1171.34] three or four years.
[1171.48 --> 1180.00] I had to rely on OpenVPN originally to get an SSH to get into the box in England via OpenSense.
[1180.20 --> 1183.72] I had a site to site VPN between the two so that all the traffic was encrypted and then
[1183.72 --> 1187.30] encrypted within that tunnel as well over SSH and ZFS send.
[1187.30 --> 1192.60] I used Jim Salter's Syncoid and Sanoid to do all my snapshots on ZFS.
[1193.06 --> 1196.64] And then Syncoid is what's used to manage those snapshots and sync them to the remote
[1196.64 --> 1197.10] endpoint.
[1198.14 --> 1202.28] But last year, when I went back to England, I did a motherboard upgrade on that server.
[1202.38 --> 1205.46] And there's a blog post, which I'll link to in the show notes about the motherboard
[1205.46 --> 1206.00] I'm using.
[1206.40 --> 1211.36] However, shortly after I left England, my father informed me that they were selling the childhood
[1211.36 --> 1212.58] home and moving.
[1212.58 --> 1218.10] And where they were moving to, which if you've listened to the show, you'll know, didn't really
[1218.10 --> 1219.96] have the best of internet connections.
[1220.72 --> 1222.92] It's up in the northeast of England.
[1223.22 --> 1231.48] And the internet there was, I think I'm generous in saying two megabytes down and 0.5 megabytes
[1231.48 --> 1231.88] up.
[1232.38 --> 1233.06] Oh, it's miserable.
[1233.52 --> 1233.80] Yeah.
[1234.46 --> 1240.56] So they have got Starlink and it's a lot better now for stuff like tablets and phones and
[1240.56 --> 1243.60] iPlayer and whatever else they do for normal people.
[1244.08 --> 1245.30] Yeah, it's way better for that kind of stuff.
[1245.44 --> 1251.18] But in terms of running a server, it's not, you know, I'm not throwing terabytes through
[1251.18 --> 1255.66] that link anymore because the, you know, the main data set's already over there.
[1256.48 --> 1260.96] But if ever I needed to restore that data, you know, Starlink's probably just not the
[1260.96 --> 1262.52] right way to go.
[1262.52 --> 1270.66] So then somehow the gods smiled on me and my mother-in-law who lives in rural Norfolk,
[1271.32 --> 1278.16] she has had internet that has been awful for as long as I can possibly remember.
[1278.36 --> 1283.20] Again, it was in that sort of four or five megabyte down, one or two megabyte up region,
[1283.34 --> 1284.60] just DSL, ADSL.
[1284.60 --> 1289.80] If it got a bit windy, the speed dropped, you know, because the lines were suspended
[1289.80 --> 1291.08] over such a distance.
[1291.70 --> 1294.64] She messaged me a month ago and said, hey, good news.
[1294.98 --> 1296.66] I'm getting fiber to the property.
[1297.18 --> 1297.84] Fiber out there?
[1298.02 --> 1299.52] I was like, fiber to the property?
[1299.82 --> 1301.06] I can't even get that.
[1301.74 --> 1302.78] You said yes, right?
[1302.86 --> 1303.54] You said yes.
[1303.56 --> 1304.46] I said yes.
[1304.68 --> 1309.98] And so she now has, I'm led to believe, a 500 symmetrical megabyte connection.
[1309.98 --> 1316.50] So my primary old British server is now going to move from my father's to my mother-in-law's
[1316.50 --> 1319.04] who I will bribe with something.
[1319.24 --> 1320.48] I haven't figured out what yet.
[1320.64 --> 1321.46] A gadget maybe?
[1321.74 --> 1322.98] Yeah, she's already said yes.
[1323.20 --> 1327.54] But the fiber comes in at the wrong end of the house from where we had a 4G connection
[1327.54 --> 1332.20] for a before an LTE modem on the roof because the ADSL connection was so bad.
[1333.36 --> 1337.76] And this is a lady that works fully remotely over the internet and has done for years now.
[1337.76 --> 1341.06] So the internet is very important to her livelihood.
[1341.46 --> 1342.78] This is going to be huge for her then.
[1343.22 --> 1347.40] And so for me, I'm going to be drilling holes in walls and running ethernet through brick walls,
[1347.52 --> 1353.38] not just American cardboard walls, proper walls, 18th century cottage walls, no less,
[1353.64 --> 1357.80] which are, you know, three feet thick type deals.
[1358.10 --> 1359.80] Honestly, that sounds like a pain in the ass to work on.
[1359.86 --> 1360.52] I don't think I'd want that.
[1360.84 --> 1362.96] Yeah, it's going to be fun.
[1363.42 --> 1366.94] So I'll be doing a bit of work whilst I'm over there running ethernet for her.
[1366.94 --> 1370.26] And I think my reward will be to host the server at her house.
[1370.86 --> 1376.98] Now, since TailScale is now a thing, I will be running all of my backups over TailScale
[1376.98 --> 1381.66] to that particular server and dispensing with OpenSense on the remote site.
[1381.88 --> 1383.12] I don't see the need anymore.
[1383.62 --> 1388.42] TailScale works on my Nvidia Shield so I can run iPlayer through Android TV.
[1388.42 --> 1392.84] It also works on my phone, my iPad, my laptop, blah, blah, blah, blah.
[1392.98 --> 1397.44] So I can come out with a British residential IP address with 500 meg up, no problem.
[1398.18 --> 1400.16] I just don't really need WireGuard anymore.
[1400.38 --> 1402.40] It's naked WireGuard anyway.
[1402.56 --> 1404.28] I mean, I know TailScale uses it under the hood.
[1404.66 --> 1404.70] Yeah.
[1404.70 --> 1409.08] When you were talking about how you had a point-to-point VPN and you're SSHing over that,
[1409.18 --> 1411.60] and I was like, that's funny.
[1411.84 --> 1413.86] That's how I did things for like 20 years.
[1413.86 --> 1416.30] But now that sounds like a really old way of doing things.