Bye, London!

laptopcat -

Just talking a bit about what's been going on lately. It's kind of follow-up to the first one, read it if you didn't yet

Why leave London?

Well, as you may already know, I don't have an income and it's a bit hard to manage to pay for everything. That's it.

Also, London isn't that far away from Frankfurt. Our main instances of soundcloak and rens are fairly stable, so the difference is only about 10-11ms latency (if you're in London)

Sorry to all the people from nearby there that were using those instances :P

sc.lon.maid.zone and ren.lon.maid.zone now redirect to sc.maid.zone and ren.maid.zone. I have no plans to remove those redirects, so everyone can easily migrate over.

What about the network?

Why I got a VPS in London in the first place is to be able to easily put up a BGP session and announce my IP space to the world.

There were two paths when acquiring my ASN. First - find two other networks willing to peer with me, and second - just get VPS from the same place and announce on there.

Well, the second path seemed much easier, so I went with it. Of course, it was quite easy. And I also put that VPS into use by hosting 2nd instances of some services.

But now, I've gotten some more IPv6 space generously provided for free by KLab, dedicated some time and managed to properly setup transit on our main VPS through a tunnel. I had some problems at first, but then it became clear for me as I started to understand a little more instead of just pasting random commands and hoping it works.

Also, I'm working on getting even more transit through tunnels to be able to announce my own IP space from my home (I don't really have static IP at home).

And there is now a dedicated page for AS212470: maid.zone/as212470. I don't wanna write a new blog-post for every small thing that changes, so check that page if you want up-to-date informations on it

Other notes/news

Plans for the future?

They haven't really changed, but I will repeat them just in case