Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472, and today, I am covering the fine-tuning of my family’s Minecraft server. Let’s get started!
Rounding off the cliffhanger from last week, Apex’s tech support pointed me in the direction of making a contact account so I didn’t have to worry about impersonating someone else while getting support.
The next order of business was adjusting what I know to be Cron jobs, but they just call scheduled tasks. We want restarts twice a day, 6 hours off from our sister server. I set that up as two daily events with corresponding 15 minute warnings. The interface is still unfamiliar, but just now, I optimized it to have one event that reschedules itself every 12 hours (with a similarly arranged warning) instead of two warned tasks each going once a day.
I also set up auto saving. Before, while I controlled all the hardware myself, I was saving twice a day. I was even considering on bumping things up to four times per day on the new server, but they have a limit of two backups. Daily will give us the insulation we need while hopefully giving us enough time to address potential situations.
Next came the big one: a custom domain name. I won’t go sharing the actual URL here, because we are not a public server, but I’m glad we now have one to take with us if we decide to move hosts.
Setting up the domain name wasn’t so simple though. Sure registration felt great, but configuration was where it was all at. The last time I messed with this stuff was three years ago… HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BLOG! Anyway, I learned what I could about different kinds of DNS records. For the server, I used an A record to direct IPV4 traffic to the shared IP the server is on, and I used a CNAME record inappropriately to try and direct traffic to the XXXXXXX.apex.co server URL, thinking it would be handled from there. I actually needed an SRV record to specify more stuff about the kind of traffic to the particular port.
Along the way, I talked to three tech support representatives at NameSilo, my DNS host. I have the deepest respect for legit tech support, and I’m sure they all did their best, even if one or both of us didn’t follow the other at times. I’m just glad we managed to get things working.
Final Question: What uncommonly performed tasks have you learned more about on the second repetition?