@girish it does, yes. They also have a KVM style one for their "elastic metal" service. I'll give this a try and report back. My main question is whether I can install the OS from an image or if I have to use one of theirs. Otherwise, I may have to find another host 🙂

Hi @girish, ah that fully explains why I cannot interact with the processes running in the container. While your design idea is probably suitable for most cases it won't really work for this specific one.

But no harm done, then I will just add a cron service to my app container directly.

I finally managed to get around reproducing and debugging this and it is fixed for next release: https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/commit/0cd48bd239b13a6edec04974031ffdfed4688e08

@qwinter Yep, I understood that. But, what DNS settings in the end worked?

@3246 said in Backup mail service and primary MX:

I added made sure the record includes "v=spf1 mx..." but it's still showing as erroring in Cloudron

Sometimes it takes a while to propagate the change in DNS, so you may need to check it a few hours later.

@scooke said in Newbie Question: Ghost and Nextcloud:

Be sure to set up Backup too. I use Scaleway's Block Storage and it gets me 70GB free.

+1

And if you need more than that then Heztner Storage Boxes are also good value:

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

@JLX89 said in Cloudflare + PTR (rDNS) Settings Compatibly:

Does anyone know if there is a way around this and enable proxying on example.tld with the mail server at the same location?

AFAIK, this is not possible since Cloudflare does not support proxying mail.

We are using Vultr for the VPS, so rDNS needs to be setup to reflect the server host (EX: example.tld), if pushing the mail server to mail.example.tld, the rDNS would need to be updated to that.

Correct. You have to set the rDNS to the name of the mail server in Vultr.

@fbartels said in Duplicate entry '172.18.17.187' for key 'apps.containerIp':

PS: the synapse documentation states that the well known settings are under advanced in the domain settings

Fixed!

@niko was there any error restarting cloudron-firewall service or such? This should still work as expected, so maybe you hit a bug somewhere?

Also could you share your ports.json config here so we can try to reproduce this? If you don't want to expose your port settings here, you can also send them to support@cloudron.io

Thanks for the info, but we do not use this module, so we are all good.

Don't worry 😄 Happens to the best!

@qwinter said in Having a static website side by side with cloudron vs inside cloudron?:

What are the downsides of using surfer compared to say the same server without cloudron using nginx or apache

My instinct is to rephrase : what are the UPSIDES of using Surfer ....

But to answer the question, downside of Surfer is it does one thing serve files. Having a server with full range of facilities opens up possibilities (which you may not actually need/want) but significantly also carries management and maintenance. If 'set and forget' is what you prefer, then Cloudron and Surfer/LAMP is much better than having a traditional self-managed server.

And if the question was LAMP on Cloudron vs traditional server, then again the LAMP will almost all of what you would normally do on a normal server without the maintenance headache.

The license was moved, sending an email to support@cloudron.io for this was the correct suggestion ( thanks @robi )

@jdaviescoates Add Hostinger to the list too. I signed up for a basic web hosting plan with them. I created a secondary user account in their admin panel for my developer so he could have access and it didn't work. I contacted support and it took them weeks to get it sorted. Meanwhile, I ended up sharing my main account credentials. I was asked identical questions by different staff (under the same ticket) and I was tossed around like a beach ball in a techno festival. I had better experiences with EIG owned hosts and those guys absolutely s***.

@qwinter I used to segregate apps on different VPS. Largely through fear of apps conflicting with each other (different modules/scripts) and my personal ignorance of how containers worked.

It all cost me a fortune !! Multiple small bottom tier VPS, each of which did not consume their resources to an adequate level.

I've since gone with steadily bigger beefier machines, and certainly get better price/performance, adding on extra apps to research ("play") and they don't tax the power of a well-spec'ed host.

I do have separate VPS, one for Cloudron, one for non-Cloudron Docker deployments, etc. So I do segregate apps to different hosts but hopefully with more logic than I did before.

So I would go with the best host which makes sense to you, rather than multiple smaller ones, except where there is a clear technical reason (e.g. I don't risk my main Cloudron host with non-Cloudron docker apps).

@JOduMonT Hetzner storage box can already be mounted as Samba/CIFS on Cloudron . See also https://docs.cloudron.io/backups/#cifs

https://www.infomaniak.com/en/swiss-backup supports S3, so you can add it as S3 compatible.

@molinaire I assume you are vising my.domain.com ? If that's the case, can you please check if unbound is running fine on your server? You can do this by going to Services -> unbound. Does it show 'green' indicator?

@JOduMonT it is only a daemon, but sometimes containers are recreated, images are managed and so forth which may use up a lot of server resources temporarily, especially if disk I/O is slow.

To give some reference here, we are talking about the code section from https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/blob/master/src/apptask.js#L318 to https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/blob/master/src/apptask.js#L340 so something is slow on your system in that area. Not sure how much tinkering you want to do for debugging, but you could stray in some console.log()s there to narrow down the issue. I can also help here, if you enable remote SSH support and send us a mail with your dashboard domain to support@cloudron.io

@nebulon Hi!

Yea, everything is working great when hitting the server from outside my network. Your hosts file suggestion is a good one and is something I've done before. I'll dig into that. I seem to remember coming across a bit more of a graceful solution that handles internal/external requests. Thanks for jogging my memory!