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title: Plans for the year
author: fristi
date: 2023-01
description: Happy new year! Subcon has come a long way since the change of the 
  year. The server is now powered by an Odroid H3 board. With that, a number of 
  other changes have been made as well. 
---

# Plans for the year

*Januari 2023, by Fristi*

Happy new year! Subcon has come a long way since the change of the year. First 
off: we have moved to new hardware! The server is now powered by an Odroid H3 
board. With that, a number of other changes have been made as well. 

Storage on the server has been totally reworked; the old storage media have been
replaced with a 2TB NVMe drive that will, for one, house the user home 
directories, and a 4TB SATA SSD that will house all variable data; user 
repositories, websites, databases, the lot. All of this has been set up with 
convenient LVM partitions that can be easily resized if more space is required 
in the future. 

Many services have been updated. The gitea server has been replaced with a new 
gogs server, now hosted at [factory.subcon.town](https://factory.subcon.town). 
The old snikket server has also been replaced with a new prosody setup, offering
most of the same xmpp services at [jab.subcon.town](https://jab.subcon.town). 
Note that old snikket accounts are thus gone. The fedora installation has also 
been updated to fedora 37. 

The most notable change however will be the decrease in processing power. While 
we still have about 75% of the processing power, the upside is that the system 
as a whole is seriously more power efficient. We are now running at a fraction 
of the power the old server needed, going from 60Wh on average to a mere 6Wh. 
Serious power savings like that will lower upkeep cost, which I can in turn 
invest in improving other things, such as my god awful internet bandwidth. 

Remember that even with all these changes done, the server is, and will likely 
forever, be a work in progress. There are still some rough edges needing work, 
further configuring of services, and for the current while, a lot of work 
writing wiki pages at [library.subcon.town](https://library.subcon.town).