Migrating Matrix with 12K Users

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!

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 Prep

02:23 Caller Tony

Client received a police call
Transparent Proxy
Managed Switches
DNS Resolver/Forwarder
Firewall Rules
Squid Proxy
Dragon's Tail

11:20 VLAN questions - Tyler

TP Link G105E
HP OfficeConnect Switch
Multiple Network Cards
Managed Switch
Cisco
HP 1920 Series
Stacking

17:30 Light Automation - John

All smart bulbs have a failsafe
Shelly 1
Smart Assistant
Smart stuff at the switch
GE Enbrighten Zwave Plus
UltraPro Switch
Lutron Switches
Inovelli

24:46 User recommends software - Brett

DerbyNet
Pinewood Derby Software
Real Time stats, Live instant replay, and more!

27:03 RHCE Questions - MHJ

RHCE is hard
Skills Based
RHCSA is required before you can be called a RHCE
Class is not required, but will help you a lot
VTC Class

36:50 Tim Asked

The 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 Asked

Curious 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 TLD
Reserved Pseudo Domains
mDNS

39:21 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
InfiniBand

42:19 Caller George

Digitize VHS C tapes
Janacane Converter
VHS player with built in converter to DVD

46:48 Linux News Wire

Slackware 15 Announcement
Slackware 15 The Register
Tiny Core Linux 13
Peppermint 11 Release
Trisquel 10 Release
Openmandriva 4.3 Released
Libre Office 73 Community
AMD Linux Client Hiring
RISC V Investment from Intel
Intel Invests Billion into RISC V
3dfx Glide Coming to Linux
Local Privilege Escalation
12 Year Old Local Privilege Escalation on Linux
Sama Code Execution Bug
Argo CD High Severity Flaw
Google Open Source Story
Oracle Linux in Windows Store
Github Sponsor Only Repos

48:39 MDM Data Migration

Linux Delta Matrix Server
Digital Ocean Bill was doubling
12,000+ Users
Data Migration took 4+ days
Ansible and Containers
Postgres issues
Learned a lot
What is your baseline?
Possible Solutions

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