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IRIXNet forums are hosted entirely outside of British Jurisdiction - Raion - 03-31-2025
In light of the Online Safety Act of 2023 from the United Kingdom of Great Britain:
IRIXNet forums, using URL forums.irixnet.org, are hosted in the US and Sofia, Bulgaria. Both countries are outside of UK jurisdiction in full and as I, Kazuo Kuroi, am a US citizen, I cannot be held liable for any breaches of UK law and we will not, in good faith or otherwise, obey or accept UK law in any capacity.
This is effective as of 2025 and has been true from the beginning. The UK, just like the EU, has no jurisdiction over the content we host here.
RE: IRIXNet forums are hosted entirely outside of British Jurisdiction - vishnu - 03-31-2025
Raion, slightly off-topic relative to your post, but are you backing up the content here?
RE: IRIXNet forums are hosted entirely outside of British Jurisdiction - Raion - 03-31-2025
Always. Me and Shiunbird have copies.
RE: IRIXNet forums are hosted entirely outside of British Jurisdiction - vishnu - 04-01-2025
Daily backups then? Do you use any backup software or just tar gz from the command prompt? Where I work, we backup the entire enterprise once per hour during the workday, and then another full backup at midnight.
RE: IRIXNet forums are hosted entirely outside of British Jurisdiction - robespierre - 04-01-2025
Does Sealand still provide hosting?
RE: IRIXNet forums are hosted entirely outside of British Jurisdiction - Shiunbird - 04-01-2025
(04-01-2025, 02:17 AM)vishnu Wrote: Daily backups then? Do you use any backup software or just tar gz from the command prompt? Where I work, we backup the entire enterprise once per hour during the workday, and then another full backup at midnight.Hi Vishnu,
We rsync over every day at 4 am UTC minute 14. I snapshot the folder every day for a month, and then once per week for 6 months. (ZFS)
That folder is replicated to another server here at my place and once per day it is locally encrypted and sent to Amazon Glacier.
I am in process of removing the Amazon component of my life and will set up another server at a friend's place 100km from here. He is fully running on solar energy and has a rack in his air conditioned attic. Unfortunately, he only has 5G, so he can't provide more services.
I realised that I had not checked if everything is running fine for a couple of months and had a quick look. It is all good. No crazy acrobatics here, it is just a one-line command called by cron and if there are any issues, I get an email.
edit: If I recall correctly (Raion correct me if I am wrong), we agreed on once a day to keep the load low.
edit 2: I think we've never finished configuring the database backups, but all posts, attachments, web application, etc, usr and var folders are here.
RE: IRIXNet forums are hosted entirely outside of British Jurisdiction - vishnu - 04-01-2025
My website runs from a computer in my house (running Slackware 15, of course). I have a static IP address that I bought from Pair Domains, it's like five bucks a year, and my upstream provider is Comcast, which isn't exactly lightning fast but it's pretty fast. My lawn service guy actually nicked the coaxial cable that goes just under the surface of the ground from my house to the pole in my yard, I've got the tools, cable, bnc connectors, glue sealed heat shrink, to fix the damage, but so far it's just sitting on my todo list...
RE: IRIXNet forums are hosted entirely outside of British Jurisdiction - Shiunbird - 04-03-2025
I have a 300/300 connection via microwave from a local small carrier and they charge me ~3 USD per month for 1 v4 address and 2 v6 blocks.
O2 gives me 300/50 DSL and they charge the same for a v4. I could pay ~20 USD and get a /29 or /30 block, I think. I also get a v6 block.
It's enough for my use. I am in the first block of the unesco protected area here, so no fiber. =(