Day started from me seeing that my website, services, Nekoweb and everything else was down. Apparently Contabo was having some issues in their datacenter, and I think this was the last stretch for me. While my VPS was usually fine and rarely had any issues, Nekoweb’s one constantly gets random freezes from time to time, and Nekoweb being down for 10 hours is just unacceptable.

I was meaning to do it for a long time, and this has finally made me get an actual dedicated server for Nekoweb. I browse Hetzner auction very often, but it seems to keep having same-ish servers with not very good specs, at the minimal range of price.

So I’ve decided to look for more expensive options, and found a pretty good server for it’s price. Quite modern CPU (2019), 6x2 TB of storage, 64 GB of RAM.

As I was ordering it, something unbelievable happened! Price of the server changed in my eyes, and now it had the minimal price. I was checking the auction (it’s Dutch style) quite often throughout the months, and I’ve never seen server this good to be sold at this price, so I hurried and ordered it. Now I have this server for same price as all other, much worse servers. I plan to move all my sites and services to it, not just Nekoweb, since it has more than enough specs for everything.

This is so beautiful, I’ve never seen htop so big…

I then installed Ubuntu on the server. And then realized I need to get RAID1, so installed it again with RAID1. And then realized I did it with wrong partitions, so installed it again…

RAID1 sync is taking a very long time, so I can’t really do anything with server while it’s going, since it’s just too slow.

In mean time, my brother visited me, and we talked about what’s going on in our life. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

Played more Yume 2kki with friends. Got all of the effects now, so I’m finally truly free to explore the world. At the end I have rested in my favorite place so far - Sewers.

It’s my element.

Been thinking of infrastructure of the VPN. Maybe it’s better to just give Wireguard profiles + browser extension. Would make it much, much simpler to support basically all platforms. Drank strawberry Ramune, and it has a stronger flavor, which I like more.

Cooked ramen I bought yesterday, and it was really good! Spicy but not chemically-terribly-spicy like Buldak was. I really enjoyed it.

After eating the ramen I played Yume 2kki again with friends. While playing we met a random person that just kinda joined us on our journey. It’s actually so cool to meet new people online in games, I haven’t done this in a very, very long time.

Our journey went through the Fairy Tale Woods location. We got the Red Riding Hood effect, and found an apple altar.

Pressing on it with the effect teleported you to a weird apple house, with girl sitting on top. The house itself was very tall, and hinted that you need another effect (Bat) to get to the top.

Along the way to the Tribe Settlement to get Bat we visited the Sewers, which you can visit from the Dark Room by going upstairs.

Cozy place. It’s clear that the structure you’re standing on is enormous, and if you go to the right you can find endless stairs down, which we didn’t explore further. I’m a huge fan of superstructures — the ones that make you feel small. The ones that you can visit, explore, and go outside to admire their size.

Dark room had the Konami Room. You have to walk into directions based on the Konami Code, which then unlocks the way to Tribe Settlement.

To cross the river we needed 2 effects - Rainbow and Teru Teru Bozu, which we also had to get.

With Teru Teru Bozu you can summon rain and create the rainbow path, with which you can finally cross the river and get the Bat.

After that we were finally ready to see what Apple house hides on the top…

An apple. And a window for more adventures.

Had a very long dream that I was in Yume 2kki, which was very, very cool. I always wanted to be inside such dreamy locations. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

Went outside to withdraw money for rent. Got carbonara for breakfast.

Rested in the park.

I thought that anime shop has closed forever, but nope! I was just always unlucky with timing. I bought some cool things:

Updated diary to support multiple image uploads and zoom (image viewer) on all images.

Been kinda researching how other VPNs work, seems like they just use WireGuard under the hood. Maybe I should just use that too, since it has clients for every OS.

Played Yume 2kki again at the end of the day. Drank kiwi Ramune, and it actually has quite a mild flavor. I expected it to be super saturated or something, I’m not sure if I’m disappointed or not.

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