The torrent of traffic I'm receiving has caused my AWS bill to spike
from $9 to $148, all of the increase due to bandwidth charges.
I'm still maintaining ns-aws; the VM still continue to run, and continue
to serve web traffic, and maintain its hostname and IP addresses;
however, it will no longer be in the list of NS records for sslip.io.
There are much less expensive hosting providers. OVH is my current
favorite.
- located in Warsaw, Poland
- IPv4: 51.75.53.19
- IPv6: 2001:41d0:602:2313::1
The crux of this is to take the load off ns-aws, which jumped from
$12.66 → $20.63 → $38.51 → $62.30 in the last four months due to
bandwidth charges exceeding 10 TB.
The real fix is to randomize the order in which the nameservers are
returned.
The sslip.io service has been abused by scammers and phishers who create
sites that masquerade as legitimate sites. For example,
<https://nf-43-134-66-67.sslip.io/sg> masqueraded as Netflix.
To combat this, we've undertaken to block all sites that masquerade as a
legitimate sites, but this had the unfortunate consequence of ensnaring
a legitimate staging site (th-ab.de).
This commit assists developers by updating the documentation to warn
developers not to index their staging site.
[#53]
When we promoted the Golang code to the root of the repo, we neglected
to update the paths in the documentation, helper scripts, and pipelines.
This commit addresses that oversight by updating the paths.
The GKE's cluster's IP address is now an ephemeral IP because otherwise
I'd have to pay $360 extra per year from a premium-tier load balancer.
I don't want my website to point to an ephemeral address that quickly
becomes stale, so I'm pointing from what previously was the GKE
cluster's address to the AWS's NS server's address.
From
<https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/10759417>:
> Google Analytics 4 is replacing Universal Analytics. On July 1, 2023
all standard Universal Analytics properties will stop processing new
hits.
I wonder if Google Analytics is worth the trouble.
- Move "Directory Structure" lower down--it's not terribly useful,
certainly less useful than the "DNS Server" section.
- Remove the "tidy" turd at the bottom of the page. It adds no value,
and I'm not sure how it got there in the first place.
- A specific sections for flags such as `-nameservers`
- Add a section about running official Docker containers.
- get rid of the old, deprecated "faq" and "about" pages
[#21]
Also includes a gratuitous change to the HTML in order to trigger a
build.
Fixes <https://ci.nono.io/teams/main/pipelines/dockerfiles/jobs/build-and-push-sslip.io-nginx/builds/33>:
```
error: failed to solve: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = executor failed running [/bin/sh -c dnf install -y bind-utils iproute less lsof neovim net-tools nginx nmap-ncat procps-ng RUN mv /usr/share/nginx/html /usr/share/nginx/html-orig]: exit code: 1
```
