# About X

TODO study these 
=> https://github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob/master/ALTERNATIVES.md#system-monitoring

user namespacing
=> https://prometheus.io/docs/visualization/consoles/#graph-library

TODO name

X is a server that I run 

Self-hosting your own infrastructure comes with its own concerns

Some resources on self-hosting:
=> https://www.ooooo.be/atraversalnetworkoffeministservers/ A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx3XcKy7LJY&t=1200s Counter Cloud Strategies
=> https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit_afterlife.xhtml Feminist Server Manifesto

## Overview
* Internet: Verizon FIOS
* Router: Running OpenWRT
* Server Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3B, Sandisk 256GB SD card, connected to router via ethernet
* Operating system: Alpine Linux in sys-mode installation
=> https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Classic_install_or_sys_mode_on_Raspberry_Pi sys-mode
* Server: lighttpd
* Monitoring: Prometheus?

Principle: Simplicity

cgroups / memory limits
=> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44985/limit-memory-usage-for-a-single-linux-process

in the process of learning linux sysadmin properly so that I can move flounder onto a raspberry pi safely. hence all these notes

bubblewrap
=> https://gist.github.com/chr5tphr/bb48d742081cab207c3320be782b20cd
MAKE SURE to use --new-session

bubblewrap
=> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30823164

virtualization
=> https://lunar.computer/posts/kvm-qemu-libvirt-alpine/

set up dmz
=> https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/firewall/fw3_configurations/fw3_dmz

=> https://twitter.com/AidanSimardone/status/1640693531273461760?s=20 Lol

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NWHnWbpxmc&t=4886s disorder

TODO understand tcp
=> https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/routing/basics

TODO read
=> https://publicinfrastructure.org/2023/03/29/the-three-legged-stool/

RPI stuff:
=> https://www.maxrodrigo.com/posts/how-to-install-alpine-on-raspberry-pi/
=> https://github.com/knoopx/alpine-raspberry-pi
=> https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Classic_install_or_sys_mode_on_Raspberry_Pi
=> https://alldrops.info/posts/linux-drops/2021-06-21_alpine-linux-on-raspberry-pi-4-headless-persistent-install/

Diskless install (better than wiki)
=> https://man.sr.ht/~krystianch/home/provisioning.md

Prometheus alternative rrdtool
=> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30117700
=> https://thiagowfx.github.io/2022/01/alpine-linux-on-raspberry-pi-diskless-mode-with-persistent-storage/

=> https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Mod_rrdtool