I just finished moving my EtherPad Lite instance and my Gogs Git VCS instance to subdomains, rather than subdirectories. This involved two sources of pain:
a lot of waiting for the DNS to propagate. First I had to wait to get my new NS settings set, then to actually update the domain names allowing the git.leotindall.com and pad.leotindall.com domains to point to this server.
a lot of config file updating in multiple places. I did eventually unify my Nginx config, which will save me some grief in the future, but I still had to update the Gogs and Etherpad Lite configs to be aware of their new locations.
My new Nginx config is in a few pieces:
leotindall.comconfig. This holds the config for this blog, some other static content, my Keybase proof, and most importantly a server block which serves on port 80, on both IPv4 and IPv6, and issues 301 redirects to the same page at port 443 over HTTPS.vid.leotindall.comconfig for PeerTube. This has to do a little bit of magic to do DNS resolution (for lookup for webtorrent hosts) and websockets.pad.leotindall.comconfig for EtherPad Lite. It’s relatively simple, but does have to do some websockets config.git.leotindall.comconfig for Gogs. The simplest of the configs, it just points to the Gogs webserver.longviewconfig for the Linode Longview server.
Overall, it’s a much less convoluted system that I had in the past, and it means I can trivially seperate these services into multiple servers in the future.
I also recently installed Cockpit, which has been… a bit underwhelming. I’m hoping that will pick up, but either way it’ll be useful if I do end up leasing additional servers, since it can chart CPU and memory usage from more than one at a time, but it doesn’t offer a way to monitor Nginx or other webservers, or PostgreSQL.