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  • Upcoming changes to Hub 3

    From Jegor@21:3/228 to deon on Tuesday, July 07, 2026 01:57:55
    Hello deon!

    03 Jul 26 08:05, you wrote to slacker:

    Just a QQ, is the mail API still going to be at:
    clrghouz.bbs.dege.au/api/mail?
    Ahh, yes good question...
    Yes, it will still be that, since it's delivered over http.

    BTW, what is this API for, what does it do? Is there any readme or spec?

    Jegor

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Jegor on Tuesday, July 07, 2026 19:40:34
    Re: Upcoming changes to Hub 3
    By: Jegor to deon on Tue Jul 07 2026 01:57 am

    Howdy,

    Just a QQ, is the mail API still going to be at:
    clrghouz.bbs.dege.au/api/mail?
    Ahh, yes good question...
    Yes, it will still be that, since it's delivered over http.

    BTW, what is this API for, what does it do? Is there any readme or spec?

    I started building that you could get mail (packets) using a HTTP API call.

    https://clrghouz.bbs.dege.au/docs/api

    You can get echomail and netmail via the API, the packet format will be as configured in your BBS (system) profile.

    Posting netmail via the API works, but I havent implemented posting echomail.

    To use it, you'll need to create an API key, which you can do on your BBS (system) profile. That key will be used to receive and post as that BBS.


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  • From slacker@21:3/193 to deon on Tuesday, July 07, 2026 13:57:24
    Ahh, yes good question...

    Yes, it will still be that, since
    it's delivered over http.

    Ok cool! Thanks for confirming!

    I dont think I've implemented
    echomail posting have I? (Just
    looking through my
    code and I dont see it). Sorry if
    you've been waiting on me to do
    that, I've been distracted by
    other shiny things recently, and
    the kids...

    No worries! I'm currently only using it for sending/receiving netmail. IIRC, there was an option to receive echomail in the GET endpoint, but I don't recall anything to send echomail.

    Thanks again!


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  • From deon@21:2/116 to All on Friday, July 24, 2026 22:39:29
    Re: Upcoming changes to Hub 3
    By: deon to All on Thu Jul 02 2026 10:36 am

    Howdy,

    Clrghouz currently runs in a VM on OVH, but I recently bought a new VM in SSDnodes for 3 years - more memory, less yearly cost, so I'm going to be moving all my OVH workload over to it. I have until Sept to complete it, so I'll do a bit at a time, but starting first with clrghouz.

    So the move to SSDnodes hasnt been as successful as I would have liked. I'm convinced that the VPS that I've got is on a host that is overcommitted, and as a result its been affecting the performance of clrghouz.

    I moved clrghouz over last weekend and have been logging support tickets because of the sluggish performance of the VPS. I've noticed some packets, which would take 2s to build on the old server, have sometimes been taking over 2mins to build on the new server. Some of you may have noticed timeouts as a result.

    I've also noticed a few times that when I check back on the host, that clrghouz has been killed, the server has been rebooted, or the load average >150. The logs show that the host is stealing back memory, even though I've only been using about 8G of my 64...

    So I'm not happy, and I'm moving clrghouz back to my server at home. It's running on a CM5 now, and while it is slow, it is running better than on the SSDnode host. :(

    As an upside, its given me some areas to look at to improve the query performance, so I'll be focusing on that over the next few days to improve it's performance. Bear with me, but hopefully mail will be flowing uninterrupted soon. :)


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  • From fusion@21:1/616 to deon on Friday, July 24, 2026 11:21:53
    On 24 Jul 2026, deon said the following...

    So I'm not happy, and I'm moving clrghouz back to my server at home. It's running on a CM5 now, and while it is slow, it is running better than on the SSDnode host. :(

    start asking around about where people colo servers? maybe you can split something with someone?

    a lot of that stuff is dead now because of VPSes but for example, i had a mid-tower pc i slapped together that i shipped across the state and had colocated for a couple years.. one of those things that felt an awful lot like the owners used to be pretty chill until that industry blew up.

    still have a LUG or something? maybe they'll have some ideas

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  • From CloudDancer@21:3/226 to deon on Tuesday, July 28, 2026 22:10:46
    re:
    Thanks for the offer.

    I'll drop you an email.


    sounds good :)

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to All on Saturday, August 01, 2026 14:51:11
    Re: Upcoming changes to Hub 3
    By: deon to All on Fri Jul 24 2026 10:39 pm

    Howdy,

    So I'm not happy, and I'm moving clrghouz back to my server at home. It's running on a CM5 now, and while it is slow, it is running better than on the SSDnode host. :(

    As an upside, its given me some areas to look at to improve the query performance, so I'll be focusing on that over the next few days to improve it's performance. Bear with me, but hopefully mail will be flowing uninterrupted soon. :)

    So clrghouz (Hub 3), should be humming along now - and on a Raspberry PI CM5 in a proxmox VM. These little devices are awesome - clrghouz has 1.2m messages, supplying mail to 80+ nodes and receiving and making 1000's of connections a day, and CPU is averaging around <10%!

    It doesnt have an "outbound" directory, outbound mail is assembled on the fly during a session, finding from the 1.2m messages what you havent received yet and building the mail packet. For files, the file comes out of an S3 bucket, and the TIC file is assembled on the fly as well. I think it was these processes that the SSDnode couldnt handle, and the previous server was hiding the optimisation that was neeeded.

    The backlog of mail and files has been sent to all nodes - so if you are still seeing any problems, please reach out *with specifics* - finding specific session details to a node is bit of effort, given there are 1000s received and made each day.

    I'm working on importing much of the fidonet filegate now - so if there are files that you want to get from there, you'll be able to hook up to clrghouz with your fidonet address to get them (if you havent got them already).


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  • From Bimms@21:3/249 to deon on Saturday, August 01, 2026 17:24:55
    Re: Upcoming changes to Hub 3
    By: deon to All on Sat Aug 01 2026 02:51 pm

    So clrghouz (Hub 3), should be humming along now - and on a Raspberry PI CM5 in a proxmox VM. These little devices are awesome - clrghouz has 1.2m messages, supplying mail to 80+ nodes and receiving and making 1000's of connections a day, and CPU is averaging around <10%!

    Thanks Deon, appreciate effort/investment to keeping messages flowing.
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