Episode 272: Migrating Matrix with 12K Users - a podcast by Noah J. Chelliah

This week we tried to migrate our Matrix instance to our own data center, it didn't go well. We discuss our mistakes and what our next steps are. Your calls, your emails we cover it all in this episode!
-- During The Show --00:55 Steve's Weekend
Client Prep02:23 Caller Tony
Client received a police callTransparent Proxy
Managed SwitchesDNS Resolver/Forwarder
Firewall RulesSquid Proxy
Dragon's Tail11:20 VLAN questions - Tyler
TP Link G105E (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N0OHEMA/?tag=minddripmedia-20)HP OfficeConnect Switch (https://www.ebay.com/itm/373794096000?epid=9030355100&hash=item5707dd4380:g:htwAAOSwhlZhk9rb)
Multiple Network CardsManaged Switch
CiscoHP 1920 Series
Stacking17:30 Light Automation - John
All smart bulbs have a failsafeShelly 1 (https://shelly.cloud/products/shelly-1-smart-home-automation-relay/)
Smart AssistantSmart stuff at the switch
GE Enbrighten Zwave Plus (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07226MG2T/?tag=minddripmedia-20)UltraPro Switch (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B3LXZJ9/?tag=minddripmedia-20)
Lutron Switches (https://www.lutron.com/en-US/Products/Pages/WholeHomeSystems/RadioRA2/Overview.aspx)Inovelli (https://inovelli.com/products/switches/)
24:46 User recommends software - BrettDerbyNet (https://jeffpiazza.github.io/derbynet/)
Pinewood Derby SoftwareReal Time stats, Live instant replay, and more!
27:03 RHCE Questions - MHJRHCE is hard
Skills BasedRHCSA is required before you can be called a RHCE
Class is not required, but will help you a lotVTC Class
36:50 Tim AskedThe guy with MoCA adapters that fail... He has to be sure that any splitters along the way are compatible (will pass the right frequencies). Also, if the cable is connected to CATV, he may need an in-line filter that will prevent his in-house MoCA signalling from propagating up the line to the cable company or the neighbors if the neighborhood infrastructure is old enough.
37:20 sunjam AskedCurious about custom local domain name resolution. Setup avahi for hostname.local on my pi, but curious about adding services to *.home in addition to .local
Pseudo TLDReserved Pseudo Domains
mDNS39:21 CubicleNate Asked
I want to know where to get low(er) cost used rack mountable storage solutions. What interfaces are used between them? I have a raid 10 btrfs array I want to grow.eSATA Enclosure (https://www.datoptic.com/ec/hardware-raid-five-5-bay-1u-rackmount-esata-interface.html)
InfiniBand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand)42:19 Caller George
Digitize VHS C tapesJanacane Converter (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NPFJJ7K/?tag=minddripmedia-20)
VHS player with built in converter to DVD46:48 Linux News Wire
Slackware 15 Announcement (http://www.slackware.com/announce/15.0.php)Slackware 15 The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/07/slackware/)
Tiny Core Linux 13 (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tiny-core-linux-13-released)Peppermint 11 Release (https://news.itsfoss.com/peppermint-11-release/)
Trisquel 10 Release (https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-10-nabia-release-announcement)Openmandriva 4.3 Released (https://www.openmandriva.org/en/news/article/openmandriva-lx-4-3-released)
Libre Office 73 Community (https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/02/02/libreoffice-73-community/)AMD Linux Client Hiring (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Linux-Client-Hiring-2022)
RISC V Investment from Intel (https://riscv.org/whats-new/2022/02/intel-corporation-makes-deep-investment-in-risc-v-community-to-accelerate-innovation-in-open-computing/)Intel Invests Billion into RISC V (https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-invests-in-open-source-risc-v-processors-with-a-billion-dollars-in-new-chip-foundries/)
3dfx Glide Coming to Linux (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/3dfx-glide-linux-gaming)Local Privilege Escalation (https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/hunting-pwnkit-local-privilege-escalation-in-linux/)
12 Year Old Local Privilege Escalation on Linux (https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/all-linux-distributions-affected-by-12-year-old-pwnkit-local-privilege-escalation-bug-allowing-an-attacker-to-execute-commands-as-root/)Sama Code Execution Bug (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/02/02/samba-bug-may-allow-code-execution-as-root-on-linux-machines-nas-devices-cve-2021-44142/)
Argo CD High Severity Flaw (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/04/argo_cd_0day_kubernetes/)Google Open Source Story (https://thenewstack.io/a-kubernetes-documentary-shares-googles-open-source-story/)
Oracle Linux in Windows Store (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/02/oracle_linux_microsoft/)Github Sponsor Only Repos (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/02/github-introduces-sponsor-only-repositories/)
48:39 MDM Data MigrationLinux Delta Matrix Server
Digital Ocean Bill was doubling12,000+ Users
Data Migration took 4+ daysAnsible and Containers
Postgres issuesLearned a lot
What is your baseline?Possible Solutions
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