Brett Petch brettpetch

Moving My CDN's Brain off Route 53

Back when I wrote Building a Better CDN, the whole thing was held together by NGINX and AWS Route 53 geolocated DNS. It worked (and honestly, it still works), but a few years later the network has grown to 15 edge nodes across North America, Europe and Australia, and the DNS side of it had quietly turned into the most expensive part of the whole operation.

So, I went looking at my AWS bill, and then I went looking for something better.

The Bill

Route 53 Traffic Flow is a really nice product. You build a visual tree of rules, attach health checks, and AWS figures out where to send people. The catch is how it's priced. Every policy record (the thing that actually attaches a policy to a hostname) is $50 a month. Not per policy — per record. I had three of them.

Jellyfin 4K Transcode Killer

Ensure you have an operational Jellyfin install.
Open Jellyfin settings, go to the API tab, generate an api credential named something like checker
Run the commands below to create the neccesary files to run the software, changing the API_BASE_URL to the appropriate value and the API_KEY as well.

Installing the Script

Note: if you don't have root, you may install it in $HOME/.local/bin/

Tuning Jellyfin for Large Libraries

Jellyfin, at least in its current state hasn't been great for media server

Database

It is no secret that Jellyfin's database has its shortcomings, espeically when trying to search large media collections. To remedy this, we'll be manually setting some PRAGMA values in the sqlite database.

While it is important to note that these optimizations may cause issues should sudden powerloss occur, it should be pretty safe to run them in an environment like a datacenter, which is where most of my gear resides.

Kutt Installation

Introduction

Kutt is a modern URL shortener with support for custom domains. Shorten URLs, manage your links and view the click rate statistics.

Key Features

Free and open source.
Custom domain support.

Plug n' Play Hetzner InstallImage

Cloudbox Config

Ubuntu 18.04, 2 HDD Model For SSD models, please sub in sdX with nvmeXn1.

# Hetzner Online GmbH - installimage
#
# This file contains the configuration used to install this

How to clone an OWL Resources / Dropbox tab to your OneDrive:

Install rclone on your system of choice: https://rclone.org/downloads/

Go to the OWL Resources tab for the class you're going to clone. Copy the link located under the 'transfer files' tab located at the top of the page. Go back to rclone

run rclone config in your command line, press n then enter enter the name of a remote (your source), for this we go to OWL. Set the source to webdav then input the URL from OWL. Press enter, then type in your owl login credentials and keep pressing enter until you reach a yes or no. When you get the yes/no, press y, then hit enter. You've now setup a remote.

To add onedrive to rclone, rclone config then press n then call it onedrive, then type onedrive press enter twice to skip the client ID / client secret section (you'll use a genaric one), then use auto config (press 'y'), it should open a web browser. Login to your UWO address, then when it asks which remote, press 0, enter

Migrating to Sonarr v3 from v2 in Sonarr

This guide assumes using either Debian or Ubuntu. You must have screen installed, as well as wget or curl. Assumption is that your pwd is ~.

Start at: cd ~

Stop Sonarr Service sudo systemctl stop sonarr@yourusernamehere

Disable Sonarr Service (don't worry, we'll fix this later) sudo systemctl disable sonarr@yourusernamehere

Grab the update: wget http://download.sonarr.tv/v3/phantom-develop/3.0.3.913/Sonarr.phantom-develop.3.0.3.913.linux.tar.gz

	#!/bin/bash
	# BDInfoCLI-ng Install Script
	# Requires Swizzin and mono, Still in very very early beta.
	# Should sorta-kinda work.
	# Elevate like this ``sudo su -``
	# Place me at ``/root/`` and ``chmod +x /root/bdinfo-install.sh && ./bdinfo-install.sh``

	. /etc/swizzin/sources/globals.sh
	. /etc/swizzin/sources/functions/mono
	user=$(cut -d: -f1 < /root/.master.info)

	#!/bin/bash
	# RCLONE UPLOAD CRON TAB SCRIPT
	# chmod a+x /media/sdan/ynbldgno/cron/rclone-upload.sh
	# Type crontab -e and add line below (without #) and with correct path to the script
	# * * * * * /media/sdan/ynbldgno/cron/rclone-upload.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
	# if you use custom config path add line bellow in line 20 after --log-file=$LOGFILE
	# --config=/path/rclone.conf (config file location)
	# Feral config location: /media/sdan/your-username-here/.config/rclone/rclone.conf

	if pidof -o %PPID -x "$0"; then