Best bet for those not technically inclined?

sifuhall

Thanks for the reply.

I don’t live there, and I will take your advice and leave it alone if it is working.

bhepler

@sifuhall - What I do for the mirrors I give as gifts is I set up a reverse SSH connection to a URL that I control. Whenever I need to connect to the mirrors, I start up a cloud VM and have that VM change the DNS entry for that URL to point to itself. Alternately, you could set up a dynamic DNS entry to your home and have the mirror connect directly to your house.

With the cloud VMs, this allows me to spin up a machine, wait 5 minutes for the mirrors to connect to it, then SSH to the machine and then down to each mirror. At that point, I can change the config.js or run updates as necessary.

Fozi

@sifuhall I’d second @sdetweil’s recommendation. If it works, it works. But I still would prepare some kind of remote access, just in case.
What I would add, too, is a cronjob that reboots the mirror once a day at night. Depending on number and sort of modules, you might get into RAM issues or crashes, which decreases the user experience.

sdetweil

@Fozi SD cards are not suited to all the disk writes caused by daily reboot…

no more than weekly…

I don’t reboot mine months on end.
admittedly I don’t have lots of modules

MMRIZE

I recommend dataplicity (https://www.dataplicity.com/). Easy to connect remotely without DDNS or Portforwarding setup.

Fozi

@sdetweil Yeah, I totally agree with that.
But it really depends on the modules. Thus, some sort of endurance test might be useful before shipping the mirror.