@qwinter I think most of the issues stem from 2.0 to be fair - 1.19.7 is stable with zero issues for me. What issues are you experiencing ?

I self host with Hetzner, and have no issues at all.

@Hari understood, but you should consider the basics which always work well if they are configured properly before taking the plunge into what cloudflare offer in terms of tunnels. It’s also perfectly feasible to create an SSH tunnel to access VirtualMin from the web GUI.

A much better method of security would be to place VirtualMin (the admin GUI interface) in an internal virtual adapter that is only accessible when using a VPN. This means that without accessing the VPN first, you cannot use the VirtualMin GUI.

It’s explained here in terms of setting up OpenVPN on VirtualMin/Webmin

Also, don’t be under any illusion that this will prevent a DDoS attack against your site. In most cases, the site itself is leveraged in the attach to overwhelm the server hosting it. There are numerous techniques you can deploy - I’ve of them being Fail2Ban which is actually installed with VirtualMin and ready to configure - and it’s working out of the box once VirtualMin is installed.

Clearly you don’t want to be putting your actual website behind a VPN. That would be little and would make your site fall into the deep web classification in the sense that it would never be crawled, meaning no SEO which I know is important for you.

It would be worth checking what your hosting provider has in terms of DDoS mitigation and if that extends to your VPS. In most cases, the host can prevent a raft of attacks from even hitting your server directly.

@Hari So they haven’t actually fixed it in the core…? You should not have to rely on extensions to effectively “patch in” what should have been in core from the first release

@qwinter this particular site uses the code I wrote if you want to see it in action. It’s a information and intelligence gatherer I designed for collecting various information security articles from around the globe and consolidating them in one place.

Essentially, each “post” is in fact generated by the script, and the NodeBB API.

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A single pane of glass for Information Security

@qwinter i have 10+ years experience in managing wp sites. Anything from managing or devlopment or speed is a cake walk in wordpress.

Try CF APO you will change your opinion.

Hosting wordpress in vps is much more better than managing discourse or flarum with SSH

At this moment my top most priority is SEO first

As far i can see if we need any SEO changes in flarum it would cost anywhere from 200 to 500 USD. Few changes are not at all possible in flarum.

I wish you all the best, if you have time money patience be the part of building great communities.

If you need success and want to witness growth use wordpress or nodebb

I can challenge anyone… with the same page title i can bring any wordpress site on top in the search results. (I mean we can host two different websites and see which will rank top wp vs flarum) 😂 . When you want to beat your competitors you should take every advantage of SEO to get top rankings.

@qwinter very well put. Great points and I can certainly align with these. I personally don’t see no university as a barrier to progression. My old boss said that he’d take preference with anyone who had a degree because of their “ability to think logically” (I kid you not). I said “well, you hired me and I don’t have a degree…”.

He paused for a moment realising that he’d literally dug himself a hole and fell in it. He then said “ah yes, but you’re an exception”.

“Exception” or not - it’s still a bigoted reasoning mechanism, and elitist to put it mildly. Class distinction springs to mind here.

@phenomlab Thanks 🙏

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@crazycells yes, unsurprising as they both use the webkit CSS rendering engine. This will be the same bug I reference earlier that affects Google Chrome. Not much that can be done sadly.

@Galaxian hi, and welcome to Sudonix 👍
Can you check your config.json file and ensure that your forum URL doesn’t have a trailing backslash or forward slash in it ? This was the issue @Sampo2910 had.

@qwinter it’s workable I think, but not perfect - then again, unless you write a specific plugin to perform such a task, what is. As you pointed out, you have versioning of sorts with the historical access to reach post.

@crazycells Mmmm - yes, sadly, it is only Android (which I use). There are alternatives, but not sure what they are like

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@phenomlab said in Netflix hints at password sharing crackdown:

Amazon Prime is much the same

I must admit I’ve never been able to find anything on there that I fancied watching, maybe I’m just boring 😆😉.

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My review of KeepSolid ? Absolute s**t. I’m sorry, but this product doesn’t work - fails to connect, then just hangs. Uninstalled.
No wonder they are offering lifetime deals for a product as poor quality as this.

Absolutely Mark, it’s not surprising at all.

I’ve tried the current main three: Surfshark, Nord & Express VPN and I have to say Express VPN definitely comes out on top! 👍🏻.

@marusaky based on the work completed thus far (in relation to PM exchanges), I’m going to mark this completed. Sending email from the server itself works fine without issue, and DNS appears to be clean (valid SPF, DMARC, and DKIM records).

It appears that only Gmail marks incoming messages from your domain as spam - perhaps because of the domain age, which there is nothing we can do to prevent this. Mail delivery to all other domains appears to work fine in al of my tests.

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@qwinter I guess I’m a traditionalist, or perhaps old fashioned. I still use notepad and notepad++ for note taking during meetings. I like the simplicity and rawness and I’ll often use both for a scratchpad when needed.

for me it is joplin 😄

I use Joplin and use my empty OneDrive for synchronization (with E2EE) from all of my devices.

@qwinter agreed. It’s like the ridiculously low fine levied against Facebook for breaching privacy laws. Because the breach happened one month before GDPR came into effect, they got off with a pathetically low fine and nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

It’s almost a license for them to do as they please with no ramifications whatsoever.

@qwinter yes, zoom backgrounds work in Linux also, but only for supported CPU and graphics cards. There’s also green screen support which I haven’t tested, so can’t really comment on it’s effectiveness (also not willing to splash out on a professional green screen which I’d seldom use).

I’ve chosen the Windows 11 primary route for the time being as I unfortunately need the integration. I’m pleasantly surprised by Windows 11 in fact, and it is entirely possible to control the privacy settings - there’s a dedicated section for this.