I subscribe to these words and wish I could add some of mine to express the immense sorrow these news cause.

Claim.

While the committee still exists, there's been no activity in it as of recently.

As an update from my side, I could not attend the event I planned to on the 20th of February due to my wife forgetting I had something scheduled that day and leaving until very late, thus leaving me with no car. I love her still. Fortunately, a friend and neighbor offered to get me up to speed on that, so that's still a promising option.

In somewhat unrelated news, I have been refining the citizens directory and a related mailing solution, which would constitute the foundation for this.

Yes.

The committee still exists as far as I understand. Not much has been discussed recently. I, for one, was away during the month of January due to choir/church commitments and have only started wake up to 2024. Before that, a basic structure of the citizenship roll was made and deployed, for other services to peruse. I will be attending a meeting on the 20th to know more about a technology (Odoo) that might help us support this initiative.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on December 22, 2023, 05:06:28 PM[...]

Quote from: Danihel Txechescu on December 21, 2023, 08:50:54 PM1. The government will keep more than just Talossa.com.

Is there a "not" missing in this sentence? I was under the impression that talossa.com is the only domain name that the Kingdom still holds. Is this correct or is it not?

Nope. There are 3 domain names owned by the Kingdom:
* talossa.com
* kingdomoftalossa.com
* kingdomoftalossa.org

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on December 22, 2023, 05:06:28 PM

QuoteThe domain Talossan.com was lost due to reasons explained before.

If the Minister is referring to this previous TERP, then I'm afraid that again I don't really understand what happened. What seems to have happened was: the Government could not get in touch with Istefan at the time, so the Government decided not to pay for renewal of the talossan.com domain name with DoRoyal, and therefore it lapsed. Is this correct or is it not?

Yes. That morphed into https://www.talossan.org/. This domain's ownership will be transferred to the Kingdom shortly, so that'll make 4 domains.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on December 22, 2023, 05:06:28 PM

Quote2. Talossan services are not in my private server.

Now I am really confused. I was given to understand by the Secretary of State that - after the problems with DoRoyal - Wittenberg was being hosted on your private server, hence the occasional crashes due to backup problems. If this is not the case, can I please ask the Minister to explain exactly where Wittenberg is currently being hosted?

That is not the case. I have multiple VPS (more than I should) and the Talossan infrastructure is its own virtual private server, apart from other projects. This server is hosted by DigitalOcean in their New York data centers. Both Lüc and I have full access to that server.

As for the occasional service disruptions in the name of data safeguarding, I hope it's appreciated that we avoided a second Wittpocalypse just a few weeks ago, when DoRoyal underwent a severe attack on their infrastructure; we only lost the email boxes and we're in the process of migrating that too.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on December 22, 2023, 05:06:28 PM

QuoteI'm still paying for this bill, so no expenditure expected.

I'm afraid this is a real problem, if true, because this makes Talossa's web presence the private property of the Minister of Technology. What are the Government's plans for returning to a situation where the Kingdom pays for its own webhosting, as mandated in El Lexhatx D.2.8.4 and D.2.9?

I will not be billing the Kingdom for my services for the foreseeable future.

Danihel Txechescu
MinTech

Apologies to all for missing this deadline.

1. The government will keep more than just Talossa.com. The domain Talossan.com was lost due to reasons explained before.
2. Talossan services are not in my private server. I'm still paying for this bill, so no expenditure expected. When anyone decides to migrate things to a different provider, all the data will be available, including bring-up documentation.

DT
MinTech

I thank these questions.

1) I apologize for not sharing the good news earlier, more so to Breneir Tzaracomprada to whom I promised I would share the news. We are now in possession of the Talossa.com domain (in Talossa's account in Namesilo) for which we thank Istefan Perþonest for his quick response in this last transfer attempt. This occurred on October 25th.

2) We do have a plan to move email away from DoRoyal, which is the last bit still there. There is no timeline yet, but we want to move as soon as possible. A test server for email was set up last week, and sending out email was demonstrated successfully. Because I didn't want to disrupt more upon DoRoyal's disruption, I didn't get to test receiving emails, as that would have required changing DNS entries for longer time, but it should work just as well. Next in our testing is setting up a webmail system, like the one we have right now, and that can be done and finalized before we move away entirely.

I might add that the last disruption from DoRoyal did wipe out all of our email aliases and some (if not all) email inboxes. That makes me think that if we had stayed there with our webspace hosting, it would have been gone too. No way to know for sure, but very likely.

Danihel Txechescu
MinTech

Quote from: Danihel Txechescu on October 23, 2023, 09:30:53 PMAzul.

The server underwent an unexpected service discontinuity today, 2023-10-23, at about 19:28 Talossan Time, which lasted for about 1 hour, until 20:26 Talossan Time. The affected services were only the web server, which currently hosts Wittenberg, the main web space, the Wiki, and other web services; email remained operational throughout the entire time; backups are still safe.

The nature of this disruption was a hard drive getting filled up to 100%. This should never happen; why this happened was because it was not actively monitored. To prevent such an problem from occurring again, a dedicated lookup/monitor on hard disk utilization has now been put in place.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Danihel Txechescu
MinTech

Today the server had exactly the same kind of problem, even with monitoring (though not as active during the weekend). I can only think of a recent upgrade to Wordpress that's changed things with the database service.

The cause behind these outages is the system losing its available scratch space, due to an aggressive saving of binary logs. While these are a good safety net, we have other kinds of database backups, so I will have this feature disabled entirely as it's causing too much pain.

Apologies again for this outage. This should not happen again once this feature is disabled. We'll see in two weeks' time.

Danihel Txechescu

I would like to nominate and vote for Sir Txec, just to say that I voted for the winner.

Given there was no other nomination before the deadline, I believe Sir Txec has just been elected Premieir of Maricopa!

I claim a seat.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on October 24, 2023, 03:13:16 PM[...] Our national web presence should be administered redundantly on a server to which other members of the Government or the Civil Service can get access in emergencies, and can be transferred to another administrator seamlessly in case of a change of Government, or Danihel just getting bored. [...]

Just to make this clear, @Sir Lüc has complete access to that server, the backups, and to instructions on how to replicate the service with any other provider. This is not my personal server, it's a server I happened to set up for Talossa.

If I get run over by a plane or I happen to be in a bus crash, I trust Lüc will be able to do exactly what I did to keep the services running.

Azul.

The server underwent an unexpected service discontinuity today, 2023-10-23, at about 19:28 Talossan Time, which lasted for about 1 hour, until 20:26 Talossan Time. The affected services were only the web server, which currently hosts Wittenberg, the main web space, the Wiki, and other web services; email remained operational throughout the entire time; backups are still safe.

The nature of this disruption was a hard drive getting filled up to 100%. This should never happen; why this happened was because it was not actively monitored. To prevent such an problem from occurring again, a dedicated lookup/monitor on hard disk utilization has now been put in place.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Danihel Txechescu
MinTech

As Premieir of Maricopa, it falls to me to open the nomination period for Premier.

The nomination phase will stay open for the following week, that is until the end of the 24th day of October, 2023.

Voting will begin on October 25th, 2023, and will remain open until the end of the 31st day of October, 2023.

As Premieir of Maricopa, I hereby open the call for seats in the Maricopa Cabana.

As a reminder, any citizen of Maricopa may claim a seat in the Cabana -- the hottest spot north of Havana!