CentOS8 on AWS EC2 for SVN, NNTP
Moving from CentOS7 on bare metal to CentOS8 on AWS EC2: Setup Notes AMI: CentOS 8 Minimal (CentOS 8.2.2004) from https://aws.amazon.com EC2 Instance size: * t3a.nano with 8gb turned out extremely slow, unusable; note 'a' means 'amd' * t3.nano with 20gb turned out responsive, usable; Intel SkyLake chip. Cost $55/yr in us-east-1 Securty Updates centos-8-update-installed-packages-for-security NNTP NNTP is essentially a free messaging system suitable for public content such as technical support. Reference: Compile and Install Wendzelnntpd Documentation: PDF After Make and Make Install, stop the old server and use 7Zip to archive everything in /var/spool/news/wendzelnntpd Use s3cmd to transfer that archive to an S3 bucket. Then use curl and download the archive to the new server, and extract all files to the same folder. nntp source: cd /usr/lib64/WendzelNNTPd-OSE/src nntp config: sudo vi /usr/local/etc/wendzelnntpd.conf nntp database: /v