I find it pretty funny to see that the last post is announcing a hopeful return, now over two years old. Once again the occasion is the demise of the previous server, requiring me to move everything over to a new VM. I'm still not entirely sure what happened to the old VM, dkpg hooks started giving errors during updated and a cursory attempt to repair it (assisted by Claude and Gemini) made things worse, leaving me to export everything I could remember off the VM before nuking it and reinstalling Ubuntu server. Shoutout to Digital Ocean's rescue ISO and Magic Wormhole for saving me from having to regenerate my wireguard keys and rebuild my nginx confs.

My documentation for the VM was pretty scattered, so I need to rediscover the wireguard tutorial I had originally used to find the iptables rules need to to make it correctly route traffic for my internal Pleroma VM. The lounge IRC client is still putting up a fight despite copying over the folder passed to the docker instance, but I'm pretty certain I can get it fixed. This does make me want to go through all of my self hosted infrastructure to confirm that the backups are working correctly and it's all documented. When I do so I plan on making another blog post about it. Hopefully sooner than two years from now.