140: When Upgrades Go Wrong

Alex dives into the perils of upgrading and migrating critical infrastructure—uncovering embarrassing pitfalls and hard-won lessons along the way. Meanwhile, Chris takes his audiobook obsession to the next level, showcasing a couple self-hosted projects that are very ambitious. Sponsored By: Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Keebio: Sign up for their newsletter to get 5% off your first order. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 110 countries. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site. Smart Thermostats & Smart Home Devices | ecobee — Smart. Secure. Sustainable. Wi-Fi smart thermostat | ecobee — The smart choice for a balance of comfort, value, and energy savings. Renovate Bot — The home of Renovate, a bot for automated dependency updates Apollo Automation — Your Trusted Partner in Smart Home Automation ebook2audiobook — Convert ebooks to audiobooks with chapters and metadata using dynamic AI models and voice cloning. Supports 1,107+ languages! storyteller · GitLab — Storyteller is a self-hosted platform for creating and reading ebooks with synced narration. It's made of three components: the API server, the web interface, and the mobile apps. beszel — Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform that includes Docker statistics, historical data, and alert functions. Proxmox Datacenter Manager Roadmap — The Proxmox Datacenter Manager project has been developed with the objective of providing a centralized overview of all your individual nodes and clusters. It also enables basic management like migrations of virtual guests without any cluster network requirements. Proxmox Datacenter Manager — he project is fully developed in the Rust programming language, from the backend API server to the CLI tools to a completely new frontend. The frontend is built on the new widget toolkit that we developed over the last few years. SSH 140 Boost Barn — Thank you Boosters for supporting Episode 140!