For years I have been trying to force myself to learn and use Git. Maybe the “force” myself is what has prevented me from being successful with the tool. I want to learn Git because the concept intrigues me. In my mind this is a very valid concept to maintain versions of the work I am doing on my local device and in a remote location.

Obviously I have been going about this wrong. I have chosen a direction that clearly does not work for me. In the past I would start a programming project or related project and think, “I need to use Git to maintain versions and to learn the tool while working this project”.

This will be a documentation of moving a website from GoDaddy shared hosting to Digital Ocean droplet.  Any other cloud hosting service should work with variation in the server creation on the cloud system.  For example other services such as Linode etc.  Note that Digital Ocean calls their virtual machines droplets, other providers will have a different name.

While documenting this process I moved the domain 09flhrc.com from GoDaddy shared hosting to a Digital Ocean Droplet. For this documentation I will use this bogus IP address to represent the address assigned to the droplet: 123.456.789.012. Yes, I am aware of the irony that I am not documenting the actual IP address, then tell how to find it in a few paragraphs.

Btrfs (B-tree file system) is a modern, copy-on-write (CoW) filesystem for Linux designed for high scalability, fault tolerance, and easy administration. It supports advanced features like snapshots, data compression, and built-in RAID. It is widely used in Linux distributions (e.g., Fedora) and enterprise NAS systems for data integrity.

zram: Zram (formerly compcache) is a Linux kernel module that creates a compressed, RAM-based block device, acting as a faster alternative to traditional swap. By compressing data in memory (typically at a 3:1 ratio), it allows systems to store more data in RAM, significantly reducing disk I/O and enhancing responsiveness on low-memory devices.

The Linux kernel includes the Netfilter subsystem, which is used to manipulate or decide the fate of network traffic headed into or through your server. All modern Linux firewall solutions use this system for packet filtering.

The kernel’s packet filtering system would be of little use to administrators without a userspace interface to manage it. This is the purpose of the **iptables** utility: when a packet reaches your server, it will be handed off to the Netfilter subsystem for acceptance, manipulation, or rejection based on the rules supplied to it from the userspace (via iptables). Thus, iptables is all you need to manage your firewall, if you’re familiar with it, but many are available to simplify the task. We’ll take a look at the default frontend used in Ubuntu here.

Generate an SSH Key

With OpenSSH, an SSH key is created using ssh-keygen. In the simplest form, just run ssh-keygen and answer the questions. The following example illustates this.

# ssh-keygen 

Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/ylo/.ssh/id_rsa): mykey 

Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):  

Enter same passphrase again:  

Your identification has been saved in mykey. Your public key has been saved in mykey.pub. 

This is going to be a pretty easy and relaxing ride.  I think we should do this at a relaxed pace with KSU at 10:00 am.  This will still get us done before dark.  I staged this ride so that we can be heading towards Steve and Sandy’s house in case they have to be home early.  The entire route should be around 4 hours.

The Route Map

Waypoint A – Valero, 16794 W Bell Rd, Surprise, AZ 85374

OK so maybe the 10:00 KSU is not so late after all.  This northern starting point will mean that for the rest of the ride, most people will be heading towards home.  No nasty long ride home after the Randy Ride!  From here we will head west on Bell which will turn into Sun Valley Parkway, once known as the “Road to nowhere”.  We will be riding around the White Tank Mountains.  This is a nice 4-lane divided highway with more bicycle traffic than anything else during the weekends.  Sun Valley Parkway was built to handle traffic for an expansion of Buckeye.  Several large housing developments were planned.  So far the only developments I know of are Sun City Festival (retirement community) and Tartesso (waypoint B).  The fact that Buckeye decided they did not have enough revenue to maintain the road and left the costs to the developers, may have slowed down the other developments.  Our nice economy may also be a factor.  The speed limit is 55 mph for most of the stretch of SVP.  This seems very slow on this nice road, but I do not want to contribute to any speed ticket revenues so I usually set the cruise to 60 – 62 along this route (you do have cruise control right?). So we will be in “cruise” mode for about 30 miles doing laid-back Harley waves to other motorcycles and chin wags to the bicycles.

Randy Ride

Mt Lemmon / Summerhaven

In 1957 Harley Davidson introduced the world to the Sportster XL, the longest running motorcycle model in history.  That same year in July, eleven pilots from the 15th Fighter Interceptor Squadron stationed out of Davis-Monthan Air Force base in Tucson flew their F-86D Sabrejets to Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, NM.  They were to perform a fly-over presentation in honor of departing Commander General Wendell W. Bowman, 34th Air Division, Air Defense Command.

Randy Ride – Northern Arizona Verde Valley Wine Tour

Did you know?

Arizona is home to more than 45 licensed and bonded wineries located in three distinct areas throughout the state. There are three major growing regions, all in the high desert. The first region is in southern Arizona in the Sonoita/Elgin area. The Willcox area in Cochise County was the second area to come on board. And now the Verde Valley is our third region for growing grapes.