Kiyomizu Summary 2025
At the end I wanted to end the year with the Lineage II server but that will have to wait for a bit more, i've been keeping running it for several days in a row making sure nothing breaks in-game and i had to migrate the database twice because I had to do a crazy reformat on my MAIN LIVE system, to reorganize some logical volumes.
I had to do all that right in the eveninig of december 24th dont ask me why when i could have been drinking and eating.
But to be honest I wasn't in the mood for drinking this christmas I wanted to really take it easy and peacefully
But yeah dealing with volume groups and volumes isnt what i was expecting of a peaceful night, but well IT WAS FIXED!
Now I have 64GB RAM on this monster PC that is hosting the website, the PSO server, the lineage server, my daily life, and pretty much everyone all with 1 computer.
Let's wait for the memory crisis to go beyond and sell this memory and buy a proper studio apartment!!
Jokes aside, the PSOBB server continues working as usual and it's already entering it's 3rd year of operation, ive been handling this for 3 years already seriously??? for the eternal 0 player server because it's probably more cancelled than ever!!!
But we had some nice visitors this year as I wrote in previous posts and their feedback helped me greatly to improve the whole setup and make everything much more professional, fixed some important bugs in the game too, my redhat training helped a lot too. Maybe a new game will appear that we can host besides PSO?
Honestly I went from RF to Lineage back and forth as I love both games to be hosted here but considering there's very little people available is difficult to open them but who knows.
If only they were self sufficient games like PSO that you can afford to play alone would be an entirely different story.
So well I continue breaking stuff on the background for learning and leave everything running as smoothly as it has been so far, we even have avoided all the cloudflare bans too!
There's a little service im testing in the lab which is a youtube scrapper very useful overall pickups all the videos you dont wanna miss and saves them in the SSD, it is a container application called Pinchflat i highly recommend it!
I had to do all that right in the eveninig of december 24th dont ask me why when i could have been drinking and eating.
But to be honest I wasn't in the mood for drinking this christmas I wanted to really take it easy and peacefully
But yeah dealing with volume groups and volumes isnt what i was expecting of a peaceful night, but well IT WAS FIXED!
Now I have 64GB RAM on this monster PC that is hosting the website, the PSO server, the lineage server, my daily life, and pretty much everyone all with 1 computer.
Let's wait for the memory crisis to go beyond and sell this memory and buy a proper studio apartment!!
Jokes aside, the PSOBB server continues working as usual and it's already entering it's 3rd year of operation, ive been handling this for 3 years already seriously??? for the eternal 0 player server because it's probably more cancelled than ever!!!
But we had some nice visitors this year as I wrote in previous posts and their feedback helped me greatly to improve the whole setup and make everything much more professional, fixed some important bugs in the game too, my redhat training helped a lot too. Maybe a new game will appear that we can host besides PSO?
Honestly I went from RF to Lineage back and forth as I love both games to be hosted here but considering there's very little people available is difficult to open them but who knows.
If only they were self sufficient games like PSO that you can afford to play alone would be an entirely different story.
So well I continue breaking stuff on the background for learning and leave everything running as smoothly as it has been so far, we even have avoided all the cloudflare bans too!
There's a little service im testing in the lab which is a youtube scrapper very useful overall pickups all the videos you dont wanna miss and saves them in the SSD, it is a container application called Pinchflat i highly recommend it!
FAFO Migrations Requiem
And so... after traveling across Chicago and almost getting shot we did a huge U turn and ended up in......
The Netherlands....
This is the final location for Kiyomizu I promise I wont break anything anymore!!!!!
CAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTT PLEASE !!!! 4 DAYS STRAIGHT INSIDE THE TERMINAL FUCKING EVERYTHIN
Also..
What???
Tomorrow you are starting school again Cat.....
WHAT!?!
Yes.... You wasted all your final sanity days fixing this shit with the gateways, and tomorrow get ready !! because ONLY GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU GONNA FIND!!..
ugh..................
CAT!!? are you ready for the final stretch until December....!???
Honestly I'm not(((((( Im reall dreading the commute...
On the bright side cat with all the insanity you had to deal with this fucking server, hosting 2 games at once, plus this crappy blog, everything in your homelab, I think it was worth it...at least in the next interview you ever had with a soyboy you can actually defend yourself.
YES!!
That's the Spirit!! Have Fun Tomorrow!!!
The Netherlands....
This is the final location for Kiyomizu I promise I wont break anything anymore!!!!!
CAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTT PLEASE !!!! 4 DAYS STRAIGHT INSIDE THE TERMINAL FUCKING EVERYTHIN
Also..
What???
Tomorrow you are starting school again Cat.....
WHAT!?!
Yes.... You wasted all your final sanity days fixing this shit with the gateways, and tomorrow get ready !! because ONLY GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU GONNA FIND!!..
ugh..................
CAT!!? are you ready for the final stretch until December....!???
Honestly I'm not(((((( Im reall dreading the commute...
On the bright side cat with all the insanity you had to deal with this fucking server, hosting 2 games at once, plus this crappy blog, everything in your homelab, I think it was worth it...at least in the next interview you ever had with a soyboy you can actually defend yourself.
YES!!
That's the Spirit!! Have Fun Tomorrow!!!
FAFO Migrations Rev2
Well yesterday was a lovely day wasn't it!? because today EVERYTHING went to shit!! well, technically it was all my fault for deciding this insanity and like the old saying says "Fuck Around and Find Out" turned out to be hosting the server with a balancer server here in Madrid just down the street messed up the routings from the horrible ISPs in the US where most of the players are.
So I came up with a solution, I actually decided to use a new provider called HostHatch to spin a new balancer in .......Chicago of all places??
I actually wanted to use Chicago as the very first server area for a long time.I always had a soft spot for Chicago ever since I watched Gunsmith Cats
it's such a shame is a horrible shithole and a ultra dangerous city these days just like real Gotham City
Yet despite everything is like the best hub to do a NA/EU link to connect the new PSOBB server at home with NA and offer at least some decent ping so we can complete Stage 1 in Challenge Mode....which we did in the test... hooray!!
But anyways!! the PSO server is working again!!! and the website is also working too! now in the new address http://psobb.kiyomizu.moe
In the meantime im gonna...order something to eat....
So I came up with a solution, I actually decided to use a new provider called HostHatch to spin a new balancer in .......Chicago of all places??
I actually wanted to use Chicago as the very first server area for a long time.I always had a soft spot for Chicago ever since I watched Gunsmith Cats
it's such a shame is a horrible shithole and a ultra dangerous city these days just like real Gotham City
Yet despite everything is like the best hub to do a NA/EU link to connect the new PSOBB server at home with NA and offer at least some decent ping so we can complete Stage 1 in Challenge Mode....which we did in the test... hooray!!
But anyways!! the PSO server is working again!!! and the website is also working too! now in the new address http://psobb.kiyomizu.moe
In the meantime im gonna...order something to eat....
Migration Insanity
Well is not a mystery I was working on the Promise server these days, I came up with a annoying roadblock on how to send mails to the users for their accounts because nobody can behave these days and we can't have a normal username/password/register flow anymore.
Because everyone wants to be a chinese bot and min-max everything!!!!
So I was just bullying monsters testing some of the dungeons in-game the other day, the server is coming along very nicely. I can't wait to die and lose all my gear.......but first i gotta open this thing to the public!!!!!
Then suddenly..... People began to play on the PSOBB server!! It was those mystery people that kept popping in the evenings while I was sleeping, I managed to finally catch them around turned out to be very nice people to hang out with we had a lot of conversations in the lobby from PSO technical stuff, Q&A and how to piss off liberals all in one package you cant ask for more~~
Honestly I was feeling very blackpilled lately so this was a very pleasant surprise, sadly they decided to play challenge mode and this is when I noticed the whole cmode was broken in the build that is currently in production.... so the new rabbit that appeeared in my life suggested to also give it a try to the self-host approach, so I quickly began to set up a prototype at home.
Initially my plan was to only host in the homelab the Lineage server but since the infra was/is/maybe is already working, was just a matter of adding 2 more iptables to allow the PSOBB connection
Next step was to automate the whole newserv deployment now with ansible anxiety so I don't run into the same issue I had before, as long theres a new push in the main repo this kinda acts like a pseudo CI/CD pipeline and deploys
but als gets rid of all the modded shit too
But anyways its coming along nicely now soon we will be hosting everything from home, I think its the best move to dont rely on shitty VPS anymore
BUT NOW IF ONLY I CAN MAKE THE MAIL SERVER WORK!?! I need to send mails by the love of god!!!!
See you later alligators~
Because everyone wants to be a chinese bot and min-max everything!!!!
So I was just bullying monsters testing some of the dungeons in-game the other day, the server is coming along very nicely. I can't wait to die and lose all my gear.......but first i gotta open this thing to the public!!!!!
Then suddenly..... People began to play on the PSOBB server!! It was those mystery people that kept popping in the evenings while I was sleeping, I managed to finally catch them around turned out to be very nice people to hang out with we had a lot of conversations in the lobby from PSO technical stuff, Q&A and how to piss off liberals all in one package you cant ask for more~~
Honestly I was feeling very blackpilled lately so this was a very pleasant surprise, sadly they decided to play challenge mode and this is when I noticed the whole cmode was broken in the build that is currently in production.... so the new rabbit that appeeared in my life suggested to also give it a try to the self-host approach, so I quickly began to set up a prototype at home.
Initially my plan was to only host in the homelab the Lineage server but since the infra was/is/maybe is already working, was just a matter of adding 2 more iptables to allow the PSOBB connection
Next step was to automate the whole newserv deployment now with ansible anxiety so I don't run into the same issue I had before, as long theres a new push in the main repo this kinda acts like a pseudo CI/CD pipeline and deploys
but als gets rid of all the modded shit too
But anyways its coming along nicely now soon we will be hosting everything from home, I think its the best move to dont rely on shitty VPS anymore
BUT NOW IF ONLY I CAN MAKE THE MAIL SERVER WORK!?! I need to send mails by the love of god!!!!
See you later alligators~
