Re:Arch Linux – "It is what you make it"
by spyrosk on Friday September 16, 2011 @07:16PM
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Could you please elaborate on how you created the mirror?
I have almost the same setup (Arch, Linode, nginx) and although my VPS has been rock solid so far, I would like to have something like this for testing purposes.
Re:Arch Linux – "It is what you make it"
by dorian-graph on Friday September 16, 2011 @08:55PM
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I just checked out ArchServer and it looks like the project is winding down.
I first set up a basic webserver on Linode since they had images for Arch. I was skeptical particularly because I've screwed stuff up on Arch systems during an "aggressive" update.
It's been rock solid and I deal with updates through a basic test methodology. I keep a mirror of the system on a VM and update that first. I am also very conservative about what packages I update.
I'm only running nginx and a couple basic services along with Haskell related packages to update my static website, so I can't speak to anything more complex than that, but I've been very happy so far.
The big advantage for me is the single mental model between my personal and server systems.